Avoid: often used as a phrase to encompass “non-white, non-men,” seeking to provide solidarity for these two groups; erases women of colour, non-binary individuals| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: ableist language. The definition of junkie in Self-Defined, a modern dictionary about us.| www.selfdefined.app
Umbrella term for people of Latin American ancestry; Latino (and Latina) are inherently gendered terms, see Latinx for gender neutral form; considered a pan-ethnic term| www.selfdefined.app
Increasingly popular alternative in the United States to the gendered Latino/Latina; considered a pan-ethnic term| www.selfdefined.app
The act of explaining (usually by a man) something without asking consent to do so, often to someone who already knows and/or after someone else has already explained it (usually a woman or femme person)| www.selfdefined.app
The definition of Master Slave in Self-Defined, a modern dictionary about us.| www.selfdefined.app
The definition of Métis in Self-Defined, a modern dictionary about us.| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: the smaller in number of two groups constituting a whole; can be inaccurate and vague| www.selfdefined.app
The definition of Monoculture in Self-Defined, a modern dictionary about us.| www.selfdefined.app
Gender-neutral honorific or title of courtesy, equivalent to Ma'am, Madam, Miss, Mr, Mrs, Mrs, Sir.| www.selfdefined.app
The continued influence of colonial era ideologies and practices in a country or region by former dependencies, generally enforced by its own government and/or citizens as a lingering effect of colonialism| www.selfdefined.app
A set of words that go alongside traditional third-person pronouns (he/she/singular they) such as ze/zir, ze/hir, xe/xem, and plural they.| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: The definition of nerd in Self-Defined, a modern dictionary about us.| www.selfdefined.app
Of, relating to, or characterised by being any gender that does not fit into the male-female gender binary; an umbrella term.| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: medical appropriation. A mental illness usually embodied by unwanted repeated thoughts (obsession) coupled with repeated behaviour, routine, or action (compulsion); often misused to highlight personality quirks or fussiness usually involved with cleaning| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: racist symbol. Hand gesture where right thumb and right index finger form a circle; typically used for confirmation or as the number nine in American Sign Language, now appropriated as White Supremacist symbol| www.selfdefined.app
The definition of optical allyship in Self-Defined, a modern dictionary about us.| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: racist term. Racist alternative to Asian/Asian-American; embodies Eastern culture as| www.selfdefined.app
Group resulting from social constructs have grant less power or representation compared to other members or groups in society; acts as a contrast to underrepresented minority (URM)| www.selfdefined.app
Someone who is sexually attracted to people regardless of their gender, or to people of any gender.| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: racist term. The definition of peanut gallery in Self-Defined, a modern dictionary about us.| www.selfdefined.app
When an individual or group of power/majority/privilege (e.g., white, male, abled, unqueer, etc) loudly profess(es) their actions in the name of 'allyship,' while actively conducting harm to, taking focus away from, and generally being unhelpful towards the group they claim to support, often to receive praise and attention, without taking critical action to dismantle the systems of harm.| www.selfdefined.app
The definition of Plural in Self-Defined, a modern dictionary about us.| www.selfdefined.app
Belief that romantic and/or sexual exclusivity is not necessary for a happy, committed relationship; an umbrella term for various types of relationships (coded as romantic or quasi-romantic, sexual or non-sexual) where all partners involved consent to ethical non-monogamy, such as polycules, throuples, group marriages, etc.| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: cultural appropriation. Social gathering, ceremony, or celebrations held in different Native American communities that can be spiritually symbolic in nature, involve dancing and regalia, and involve months of planning with hundreds of people in attendance; colloquially is culturally appropriated and used to mean| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: avoid. A word that substitutes for a noun, in particular, a person's name; may not necessarily align with their gender presentation or their gender identity; the addition of the word 'preferred' should be avoided as it implies a person's pronouns is a choice| www.selfdefined.app
A word that substitutes for a noun, in particular, a person's name; a person's pronouns does not necessarily align with their gender presentation or their gender identity| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: ableist slur. Previously used in a medical context as an umbrella term for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD); typically used in a modern context as a denigrating term for a person with an I/DD, or a derogatory term to compare someone without an I/DD to someone with an I/DD| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: medical appropriation. Of sound mind, mentally healthy; the connotation that sanity ((being neurotypical or mentally well and abled) is good implies that insanity (being neurodivergent or mentally ill and disabled) is bad| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: ableist language. A basic test to quickly evaluate whether a claim or the result of a calculation can possibly be true; when expressed literally, examines if the author of a test was sane when they wrote it; commonly used in software engineering to assess whether something is reasonable and sound or meets its goals/acceptance criteria.| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: racist slur. (adj) not domesticated, primative or civilised; wild, uncultivated; cold-blooded; colloquially used to mean ruthless or unconscionable. (noun) an undomesticated person, subhuman. historically used to by European settlers to dehumanize Indigenous peoples| www.selfdefined.app
Related to languages, races, and culture of people who live or come from across part of western Asia and northern Africa, which include Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Amharic.| www.selfdefined.app
Umbrella term for people of South Asian descent; countries include Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.| www.selfdefined.app
Umbrella term for people of Southeast Asian descent; the two main subregions are Mainland Southeast Asia and Maritime Southeast Asia| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: ableist slur. Irrationally nervous person; hyperactive; a shortened version of| www.selfdefined.app
A behaviour that uses spiritual ideas and practices to delay or ignore acknowledging hardship especially of minoritised groups| www.selfdefined.app
A way of describing attraction as two separate things—romantic attraction and sexual attraction.| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: ableist language. Text styling that alternates lowercase and uppercase (often randomly) letters to indicate mockery or sarcasm, or to take a deragatory tone, popularised with a meme of SpongeBob Squarepants where he is deformed.| www.selfdefined.app
The deliberate act of voluntarily ending one's own life. Motivation for suicide can be the result of conscious or unconscious thoughts and feelings.| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: The definition of third-world country in Self-Defined, a modern dictionary about us.| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: medical appropriation. Amusia, a neurological disorder that can be congenital (from birth) or acquired (due to comorbidity or injury) that results in the inability to differentiate speech, loss of ability to sing or produce pitch, or other disassociations with music (like rhythm); colloquially, when something is insensitive or poorly thought through.| www.selfdefined.app
Describes a [transgender](/definitions/transgender) person for whom femininity forms part of their gender.| www.selfdefined.app
Of, relating to, or characterised by a gender that does not match the gender they were assigned at birth.| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: group whose representation is disproportionately less than their proportion in the general population; often racial or ethnic minority is implied, but can be used to represent any identifier, such as LGBTQIA+, disabled, gender, etc. often abbreviated as URM| www.selfdefined.app
Very impressive; amazing; larger or more fantastic than typical of real life.| www.selfdefined.app
A form of| www.selfdefined.app
The tendency for dominant white culture to respond to racism with defensive, dismissive, and angry responses; “a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves.” (Robin DiAngelo).| www.selfdefined.app
From Greek for hate or hatred| www.selfdefined.app
The definition of ADD/ADHD in Self-Defined, a modern dictionary about us.| www.selfdefined.app
The definition of agender in Self-Defined, a modern dictionary about us.| www.selfdefined.app
Aggression towards, discrimination, or prejudice against Jewish people.| www.selfdefined.app
Umbrella term for people of Asian descent (immigrant or natural born) who live in and/or are from the United States.| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: neo-colonial/racist slur. Something which is obscenely cruel; primitive; unsophisticated. In modern day usage, you can notice this rhetoric being employed almost always for the purpose of demonizing| www.selfdefined.app
The questioning or denial of the existence or legitimacy of bisexuality| www.selfdefined.app
Of, relating to, or characterised by being romantically attracted to more than one gender.| www.selfdefined.app
Of, relating to, or characterised by being sexually attracted to more than one gender.| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: racist term. Umbrella term used to represent a list of entities/people who are to be allowed or denied access to a service, privilege, or recognition: to| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: racist symbol. Appropriated by Alt-Right and White Supremacist groups as a thinly veiled code for a race-based or civil war, boogaloo was originally both a dance and musical genre.| www.selfdefined.app
Colloquially: taking a defensive position; gathering a group of people; working together to protect from external danger| www.selfdefined.app
Of, relating to, or characterised by being a gender that matches the gender they were assigned at birth| www.selfdefined.app
The act of forcing a group of people in a region or country to live under the policies and ideologies of an invading government or group of people for the purposes of asserting geo-political dominance| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: medical appropriation. Someone with decreased ability to see colour or differences in colour; colloquially, the concept that someone| www.selfdefined.app
The idea that corporations publicly declare support of the Black Lives Matter movement, often with vague language, without actually committing to or implementing real, systemic change within their company to support Black employees, clients, customers, and community| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: ableist language. Mentally deranged, insane; can be used in a derogatory manner for someone with mental or psychiatric disabilities| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: ableist term. Clumsy, foolish, unattractive, or otherwise unintelligent act or person.| www.selfdefined.app
A form of appropriation where non-Black individuals use memes and imagery featuring Black people and dark-skinned emojis| www.selfdefined.app
A disability aid that is meant to solve a real or perceived problem experienced by disabled people, but which was built without including disabled people in the design process| www.selfdefined.app
The definition of Dissociative Identity Disorder in Self-Defined, a modern dictionary about us.| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: colloquially, a man; a discourse marker expressing masculine solidarity; an expression of astonishment when used alone| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: ableist language. Non-verbal, non-speaking, silent, refraining from speaking or unable to speak; sometimes __mute__ which can also be ableist; colloquially used to mean unintelligent or senseless| www.selfdefined.app
Umbrella term for people of East Asian descent; countries include China, Hong Kong, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and Taiwan| www.selfdefined.app
The investment in time, effort, and money done by people to manage personal and professional online reputations.| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: the teaching of English to people who speak a different language and who live in a country where English is the main language spoken| www.selfdefined.app
The fear, hatred, and stigmitasation of fat people.| www.selfdefined.app
An area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food| www.selfdefined.app
Psychological manipulation tactic used to abuse by instilling doubt in the victim's own thoughts, observations, feelings by denying, misdirecting, and lying to them; from the Gaslight play (1933) and film (1944)| www.selfdefined.app
Often used to mean pronouns| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: racist language. Avoid. colloquially, to permit to continue under expired rules; racist origins of Grandfather Clause| www.selfdefined.app
Umbrella term for people of Spanish, or Spanish-speaking ancestry; considered a pan-ethnic term| www.selfdefined.app
Avoid: sexist. Feeling or showing uncontrollable outburst of emotion; casually, very funny| www.selfdefined.app
A system that places value on people’s bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, intelligence, excellence, and productivity. These constructed ideas are deeply rooted in anti-Blackness, eugenics, colonialism, and capitalism. — Talila| www.selfdefined.app
Groups resulting from social constructs have been granted less power or representation compared to other members or groups in society; preferable as a term to minorities for its focus on power struggle| www.selfdefined.app