Ally: Any person or institution who understands how doing anti-homophobic work benefits them and their people, and then goes ahead and does that work. Being an ally is more active than being a friend.
Bisexuality: Sexual attraction to and/or behavior with both sexes.
Biological Sex refers to the physiological and anatomical characteristics of maleness and femaleness with which a person is born.
Gender Identity refers to one's psychological sense of oneself as a male or female.
Gender Role refers
to the socially constructed and culturally specific behavior and
expectations for women (femininity) and men (masculinity).
Coming out: The
act of defining oneself as gay or lesbian. There are significant
moments and incidents of "coming out" -- to family, religious community,
neighbors, colleagues. Coming out also represents the daily, ongoing
need to not be made invisible in a heterosexist society.
Dyke: Many
lesbians self-identify as dyke. This is not a word all lesbians feel
comfortable with. It is still a loaded term that is used in a derogatory
way by homophobic people.
Fluid: A
term suggesting that sexuality and gender are social constructs and
that it is natural to feel a certain "fluidity" in sexual attraction and
identity. Fluid refers to accepting the continuum of sexual orientation
from gay to straight with every nuance in between.
Gay: Traditionally,
the term gay has referred to men. It has come to include lesbians,
bisexuals, transgender, transexuals, etc. The word came from the Gay
Liberation movement.
Heterosexism: Believing heterosexual lifestyle is superior to other lifestyles; promoting heterosexual lifestyle.
Heterosexuality: Sexual attraction to and/or behavior with the other sex.
Homophobia: The
fear, intolerance, mistreatment, and oppression of homosexuality,
bisexuality, lesbian women, gay men. It is often used to express the
mistreatment and oppression of gay people by individuals and/or
institutions.
Homosexuality: Sexual
attraction and/or behavior with the same sex. sexuality, lesbian women,
gay men. It often used to express the mistreatment and oppression of
gay people by individuals and/or institutions.
Lesbian: Gay
woman. Most lesbians prefer the term lesbian because it gives gay women
an identity independent from men. There is a growing diversity of
lesbian lifestyle and culture. Many lesbians self-identify as dykes.
Outed: (As in, "They 'outed' her at the meeting.") When someone tells other people that another person is gay.
Partner: A
term used to describe a sweetie, loved one, wife/husband,
comrade-in-life, within the gay community. It is also a term straight
people consciously use for their lovers/spouses as an act against
hetereosexism.
Patriarchy is
the root cause of sexist oppression. It is a system of oppression which
values the work of men over that of women, which privileges male
culture and men oriented roles and tasks over that of women and women
oriented tasks. It is a system of oppression that elevates men into
positions of power and decision-making while devaluing or diminishing
the contribution of or role of women. **Taken from MXGM Definitions**
It
is a system of oppression, which assumes and accepts heterosexual
relationships as the norm and values those relationships at the expense
of others.
Patriarchy,
arguably the first system of oppression learned by everyone, intersects
with other systems of oppression such as white supremacy, classism and
heterosexism to oppress Black women and Black LGBT/Queer people.
Patriarchy
is a political-social system that insists that males are inherently
dominating, superior to everything and everyone deemed weak, especially
females, and endowed with the right to dominate and rule over the weak
and to maintain that dominance through various forms of psychological
terrorism and violence.....Bell Hooks
Privilege: A resource or state of being that is only readily available t some people because of their social group membership.
Queer: A
term, loved by some gay people, hated by others, that reflects
inclusion of gay, straight, transexual, transgender, bisexual, and
questioning people. Outside of the gay/lesbian community, queer is a
derogatory term used by homophobic people.
Questioning: Being open to defining one's sexual orientation.
Racism is the belief that there are inherent differences in people's traits and capacities that are entirely due to their race,
however defined, and that, as a consequence, racial discrimination
(i.e. different treatment of those people, both socially and legally) is
justified.
Racism is
more than a matter of individual prejudice and scattered episodes of
discrimination.There is no black racism because there is no
centuries-old system of racialized subordination and discrimination
designed by blacks to exclude whites from full participation in rights,
privileges, and benefits of this society. Black racism would require not
only a widely accepted racist ideology directed at whites but also the
power to systematically exclude whites from opportunities and rewards in
major economic, cultural, and political institutions. While there are
Blacks with anti-white prejudices, and there are instances of Blacks
discriminating against whites, these ….are not part of an entrenched
structure of institutionalized racism that can be found in every part of
this country **Taken from MXGM Definitions**
Right: A resource or state of being that everyone has equal access to, regardless of their social group membership.
Sexism:
The cultural, institutional and individual set of beliefs and practices
that privilege men, subordinate women, and denigrate values and
practices associated with women. Sexism is more than a matter of
individual prejudice and scattered episodes of discrimination. There is
no female sexism because there is no centuries-old system of sexualized
subordination and discrimination designed by women to exclude men from
full participation in rights, privileges, and benefits of this
society. Female sexism would require not only a widely accepted sexist
ideology directed at men but also the power to systematically exclude
men from opportunities and rewards in major economic, cultural, and
political institutions. While there are women with anti-male prejudices,
and there are instances of women discriminating against men, these
….are not part of an entrenched structure of institutionalized sexism
that can be found in every part of this country. **Taken from MXGM Definitions**
Sexist oppression is
any force or entity that limits the self-determination of women and
girls. It is the exercise of male privilege (power and control), by
individuals as well as the state and results in violence and abuse of
women and girls. Sexist oppression is propagated by the state through
policies and practices that adversely affect women. The result of these
policies is the creation and expansion of an economic and social
underclass of women who struggle to support their families while they
are treated as expendable labor. **Taken from MXGM Definitions**
Sexual Orientation: Sexual
orientation is the term people use to define what gender they are
sexually attracted to. A person who has a sexual attraction to members
of the opposite gender is called heterosexual (or straight), while
someone who has a sexual attraction to members of the same gender is a
homosexual person. Sexual orientation is a continuum, not a set of
absolutely different categories. It is not known what determines a
person's sexual orientation.
Social Power: Access
to resources that enhance one's chances of getting what one needs in
order to lead a comfortable, productive and safe life.
Transgender: This
has become a catchword for transvestites, transexuals, female and male
impersonators, drag queens, those without a specific gender label.
Transsexual: Changing to another gender: surgically, chemically, and/or aesthetically.
Gender non-conforming refers
to people whose gender expressions do not match stereotypes of how
girls/women or boys/men are "supposed to" look and act. In reality, most
people in general don’t meet all gender expectations and stereotypes
either; almost nobody is perfectly masculine or perfectly feminine. The
reason gender nonconforming people are included in the list of
transgender people is that there are some people who identify as
transgender but are not transitioning gender, and do not consider
themselves cross-dressers, androgynous, or gender queer. Gender
non-conforming people have an increased need for safety while in the
shelters.
Two-spirit: The
definition of a two-spirit person varies across the Native American
cultures in which they appear. In general, two-spirit people are born
one sex, and end up fulfilling the roles assigned to both sexes, or
other roles reserved for two-spirit people. Some people consider
two-spirit a term that can refer to lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender people, while others think it is best used only for
transgender people.
Transphobia is
the negative valuing, stereotyping and discriminatory treatment of
individuals who do not conform in appearance and/or identity, to
conventional conceptions of gender. Trans-identified (transgendered)
individuals, lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and their supporters are
typically the targets of transphobia.
Taken from:
http://afeministtheorydictionary.wordpress.com/
No comments:
Post a Comment