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Ableism
Discrimination on the basis of physical, mental, or emotional impairment or blocked access to the fulfillment of needs and in particular, full participation in social life.
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Bias
Prejudice for or against one thing, person or group compared to another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.
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Biological determinism
can be defined as a general theory, which holds that a group’s biological or genetic makeup shapes its social, political, and economic destiny.
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Classism
Discrimination on the basis of social class, or blocked access to material wealth and social status.
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Feminism
is not a single school of thought, but rather, encompasses diverse theories and analytical perspectives—such as socialist feminist theories, radical sex feminist theories, black feminist theories, queer feminist theories, transfeminist theories, feminist disability theories, and intersectional feminist theories.
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Heteronormativity
The everyday, taken-for-granted ways in which heterosexuality is privileged and normalized.
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Homophobia
—the fear, hatred, or prejudice against gay people.
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Implicit bias
attitudes towards people or groups of people or associate stereotypes with them without our conscious knowledge.
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Intersectionality
Seeing systems of oppression working in concert, rather than separately and independently. Also, the complex, cumulative way in which the multiple forms of discrimination (e.g. racism, sexism, classism) combine, overlap or intersect the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups.
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Social constructionism
is a theory of knowledge that holds that characteristics typically thought to be immutable and solely biological—such as gender, race, class, ability, and sexuality—are products of human definition and interpretation shaped by cultural and historical contexts.