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📕 Self-Defined Dictionary

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A modern dictionary about us. We define our words, but they don't define us.

Self-Defined seeks to provide more inclusive, holistic, and fluid definitions to reflect the modern world. For now, this stands as a list only, from which you can self-educate. Pull requests can be made to include words that are not yet represented.

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Components (Build order)

  1. Dictionary site: Webapp where words can be connected, linking to alternates for bad terms or alternates for definitions with nuance. Create ability to use parameters so someone can connect multiple words they use together, to help clear up how they define themselves. For example, ?disabled+pan+Indigenous. Creating such a strand easily would allow people to link in email signatures, Twitter bios, etc.
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  2. Twitter bot: Allows someone to tag @SelfDefinedBot in order to get automated reply. For example '@SelfDefinedBot define racism'.
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  3. Twitter bot: Allows someone to tag @SelfDefinedBot in order to get automated reply. For example '@SelfDefinedBot define racism'.
  4. Slack bot: Problematic words could be flagged and alternates could be provided. Could also define words.
  5. Custom API: Allows dictionary to be adapted and included into other large-scale projects.

Design

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Work in progress on CodePen. Hoping to connect core words with adjacent words.

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+ mentally deranged; demented; insane. +

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Crazy is very commonly used as an adjective to embody a vast array of ideas, often not specifically. It is used so frequently that it sometimes is a filler. Crazy can also be used in a derogatory manner for someone with mental or psychiatric disabilities.

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By using ableist language, we are perpetuating violence against people who experience mental or psychological disabilities. Using it perpetuates those systems and language of harm, regardless of our intent.

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+ Be more specific. Typically we can find an alternate definition by simply reflecting on what emotion we're really feeling. +

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+ + abundant, bizarre, enormous, ludicrous, outlandish, ridiculous, unbelievable, unexpected, unfamiliar, unreal, scary, shocking, strange, wicked +

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the smaller in number of two groups constituting a whole

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Minorities is not always accurate. As it deals with numbers, often the insinuation of racial minorities is inaccurate, as communities of colour often outnumber white communities.

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By repeatedly referring to groups as "minorities," they are being infantised and made to feel minor.

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minoritised, or omit

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groups resulting from social constructs have grant less power or representation compared to other members or groups in society

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Minoritised places the emphasis on the power struggle, and on the systemic issues at play. It's also an adjective, which requires you to add "group" or "people" so it's people-first language

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It removes the pejorative nature of "minorities".

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minorities, or omit

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the teaching of English to people who speak a different language and who live in a country where English is the main language spoken

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Monolinguist, English-only speakers often refer to people who don't speak English natively as "ESL" or say they are learning a "second language". More often than not, this is not true, as many people are multi-lingual with 3 or more languages

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It makes false assumptions about English learners, centres English as the "default" or "expected" first language, ignoring that many people learn multiple (>3), non-English languages first.

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English as learning-language (ELL), or non-native, or omit (because do you really know, for sure?)

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+ the tendency for dominant white culture to respond to racism with defensive, dismissive +

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What happens to women of colour? As a woman of colour, I am split between both women and people of colour.

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As such, it elicits feelings of erasure for women of colour. It also neglects non-binary individuals.

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+ people of colour and white women or people of colour, white non-binary people, and white women, find ways to reframe why this dynamic exists, or omit

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often used as a phrase to encompass "non-white, non-men," seeking to provide solidarity for these two groups

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What happens to women of colour? As a woman of colour, I am split between both women and people of colour.

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people of colour and white women or people of colour, white non-binary people, and white women, find ways to reframe why this dynamic exists, or omit

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