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2.6: Glossary

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    • Cisgendered is someone whose gender identity and expression matches and aligns with the biological sex they were assigned at birth. It is often shortened to “cis.”
    • Corporeal refers to the physical entity of a person’s body and constitutes the tangible qualities of that body as experienced or observed through shape, form, size, movement, and resistance to force and/or movement.
    • Dialectical Relationship is defined as two parties engaged in oppositional activities that are both opposite and opposing.
    • Différance is a French word created by Jacques Derrida, French philosopher that describes the way language and the meanings of words are not a given, and instead are created through the way behaves or functions in comparison or contrast to other words. It points to this construct or creation of meaning being both the difference between things, as well as the act of deferring the meaning of each word until more words or information is given. The word is a French play on the words differer, which means both to defer and to differ, and the very word illustrates the concept: words need other words to give them context and that context creates meaning.
    • Double Consciousness is a term coined by W.E.B. Dubois to describe the sensation or experience of Black Americans within America as a colonized and alienated people. It refers to the experience of looking at oneself through the eyes of the dominant culture and measuring oneself according to the standards of the dominant culture. It is the sensation of knowing oneself as Black, then and separate as American. DuBois’ theory does not account for the specific experience of being conscious of oneself as gendered outside of a heterosexual male.
    • Gender Embodiment is the outward, public expression of gender a person chooses to present. It is the behavior, as well as the outward appearances (hair, clothes, make-up, jewelry), voice, and mannerisms the person displays, and can also include other ways society expresses and read gender (such as name and pronouns). Both gender identity and gender expression are different from and not related to a person’s sexual orientation.
    • Gender Identity refers to the way a person experiences gender internally and personally. It is the way a person experiences their gender within the gender spectrum and can be expressed as male, female, both, neither, or something else along the gender spectrum. It does not have to refer to the gender the person was assigned at birth and can differ.
    • Heterogeneity/Heterogeneous is diversity or diverse elements within an entity. It refers to a state of being dissimilar, or composing parts that are contrasting, disparate, or unequal.
    • Heteronormative is an outlook or perception of the world that centers and promotes heterosexuality as the normal, standard, and preferred orientations of sexuality. It supposes gender binaries (two sexes—male and female) that establish and accept sexual, romantic, and marital relationships as occurring naturally between two people of the opposite binary sexes—male and female. This belief and construct support and maintains an outlook that heterosexuality is the norm and that anything outside is a deviation. It aligns sex, sexuality, gender identity and gender roles to biological sex and heterosexuality.
    • Imperialist refers to a person, institution, belief, doctrine, or entity that supports and advances an imperialism framework, which is the strategic practice, policy, advocacy or extending of a country or nation’s power, dominance, and influence over foreign nations. Imperialism is often experienced as political, social, and economic dominance, control, and power where an empire has established colonies and dependent foreign nations. Imperialist nations’ goals are to gain resources and they have historically utilized exploitation and force to achieve their goals.
      • Note: Imperialism differs from colonialism in that colonialism includes sending in settlers to physically occupy and acquire land and resources. Imperialism does not have to include settler invasion.
    • Intersectional Consciousness is our awareness and acknowledgement of a person’s intersectional identities that transverse multiple social identities and how those identities combine and intersect to create diversity and differences within groups.
    • Misogynoir is the specific prejudice, aversion, hatred, and dislike of Black women. It combines the terms misogyny, which is the prejudice, hatred, and aversion of women with the word, noir, which denotes Blackness. It was coined in by activist Moya Bailey to address the specific misogyny directed intentionally to Black cisgender and transgender women.
    • Misogyny refers to the sustained, intentional dislike, hatred, aversion and contempt of cis-gendered and transgendered women due to prejudice based on gender. Misogyny can be reflected in actions, speech, practices, laws, and behaviors.
    • Nommo refers to the power of words and language to create harmony and balance amid chaos, disorder, and turmoil. It identifies the power of words to create reality. It is a Bantu word that recognizes the power of language to create and manifest change. It is recognized as both a Bantu word and the ancestral spirits of the Dogon people of Mali.
    • Paternalism is the act and practice of an authority figure or dominant figure controlling the actions and freedoms of those who are subordinate to them with the supposed best interest of those who are controlled. The practice and action presupposes that those in subordinate positions are unable to care for or direct themselves and have a lack of self, world, and greater knowledge and can harm themselves if not controlled by the authority figure in control of their freedom and liberties.
    • Patriarchal is a system or structure that is defined by, related to, and established within a patriarch or a male headed and defined family, tribe, government, institution, or system. It describes any institution or entity that is controlled by a male figurehead as the absolute ruler. In a Patriarchal system, males are deemed as the central head of the unit and are the most important figure, over women and children.
    • Praxis and theory refers to the practice or concrete actions taken by someone and the theoretical support of those actions. Praxis refers to the tangible, concrete actions that support the more abstract form theoretical ideas take.
    • Quotidian refers to the everyday, normal occurrences. It is the mundane things that are ordinary and not elevated or perceived as special or requiring any outstanding attention. It is commonplace, routine, daily, and ordinary.
    • Subjugation is the act of bringing someone or something under control and governance through power. It is the act of conquering and oppressing a person or collective group of people, and in turn, believing that their worth and value is less than those holding the power. Under subjugation, those who are oppressed are denied freedom and they are reduced to a subject.
    • Transgendered is someone whose gender identity and expression differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. It is often shortened to “cis.”
    • Womanism is a social justice theory and praxis rooted in Black and other women of color’s everyday experiences within an oppressive system, their ability to problem-solve, and their enduring desire to end all systems of oppression and domination for all people of all genders and walks of life, while also restoring the proper balance and synergy between humans, nature, humanity, and the spiritual realm.

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