Self-Defined
A modern dictionary about us. We define our words, but they don't define us.
For now, this stands as a list only, from which you can self-educate. Future phases will include definitions and resources.
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List of Term
- Ablelism
- American
- African
- Asian
- Black
- Indigenous
- Ambulatory Wheelchair
- Ancestors
- Anti-blackness
- Anxiety disorders
- aromantic
- Asian
- East
- South
- Southeast
- asexual
- Auto Immune Disorder (AIDS)
- assigned at birth
- Attraction
- Aesthetic
- Platonic
- Sexual
- Autism spectrum
- Bias
- bierasure
- bipolar
- Bisexual
- Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME)
- Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC)
- Black
- men (BM)
- people (BP)
- women (BW)
- Brown
- Bropropriating
- Burka
- cisgender
- Climate change
- Colonial narrative
- Colonialism
- colorism
- Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- cultural appropriation
- Demi
- -boy
- -girl
- -romantic
- -sexual
- Disability
- disabled
- discordant couples
- Discrimination
- Dominant culture
- Dominant culture habits
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (EDS)
- Egalitarian
- Empathy
- enby
- Entitlement
- Equality
- Equity
- Fem
- Femme
- Ethnicity
- Gender
- Cis
- -Fluid
- Trans
- Queer
- Gender confirmation surgery (GCS)
- genderqueer
- Genocide
- Governmentality
- gray ace
- Gray asexuality
- hegemonic
- Hermaphrodite
- pseudo, male and female
- High-Functioning
- Hijab
- Hispanic
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- Homophobia
- hormone Replacement therapy (HRT)
- Illness
- Chronic
- Immigrant
- Impact
- Implicit bias
- Indigenous
- Inherent
- Intent
- internalized oppression
- Intersectionality
- intersex
- invisible disabilities
- Jihad
- Latinx
- Marginalized
- Matriarchy
- Medication sensitive
- Militarization
- Minority
- Misogynoir
- Neurodivergent
- Neurotypical
- non binary
- -Normative
- cis
- hetero
- Oppression
- Internalized
- Other specified feeding or eating disorders (OSFED)
- Panic attacks
- Pansexual
- -passing
- female-
- male-
- white-
- Parachuting
- Patriarchy
- Performative allyship
- People of Color (PoC)
- People with disabilities
- -phile
- andro
- gyne
- Platonic
- Queer
- Polyamory
- Positivism
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- power
- Poz
- Prejudice
- Pride
- Pride, First (Anti-Police Riots)
- Prophylaxis
- Pre-exposure (PreEP)
- Post-exposure (PEP)
- Privilege
- Cis
- Monosexual
- White
- Race
- Racial
- Contract
- Formation
- State
- Raciology
- Racism
- Racist
- Savior
- White
- Semitic
- Serodiscordant
- settler
- colonial mentality
- Sexual
- assault of a minor
- orientation
- Socially constructed
- Solidarity
- -Splaining
- cis
- man
- white
- Spirit animal
- Systematic
- Systemic
- Top-down approach
- Totemic animal
- Tawhid
- Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist (TERF)
- Trans
- gender
- man
- masculine
- phobia
- woman
- Tribe
- Triggers
- Two-spirited
- Undetectable=Untransmittable (U=U)
- Undetectable
- Unqueer
- Indigenous
- Vertigo
- Visual
- Vestibular migraine
- Violence against women and girls (VAWG)
- Viral Load
- White
- feminism
- fragility
- -ness
- supremacy
- woman tears
- people (WP)
- women (WW)
- White supremacist capitalist patriarchy
- womanism