Social Justice Resources

**Useful Links/Resources to Learn More About Mental Health, Climate Change, and Social Justice Topics.**

 

 

Terms You Should Know:

  • Ableism: Discrimination and social prejudice against people with disabilities. Ableism characterizes persons as defined by their disabilities and as inferior to the non-disabled. (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Accessibility: Easily used or accessed by people with disabilities: adapted for use by people with disabilities. (Source: Merriam Webster)
  • Activism: The policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change. (Source: Oxford Dictionaries)
  • Ageism: Prejudice or discrimination against a particular age-group and especially the elderly. (Source: Merriam Webster)
  • Allyship: is the practice of emphasizing social justice, inclusion, and human rights by members of an ingroup, to advance the interests of an oppressed or marginalized outgroup. Allyship is part of the anti-oppression or anti-racist conversation, which puts into use social justice theories and ideals. (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Anti-Racism: Anti-racism refers to a form of action against racial hatred, bias, systemic racism, and the oppression of marginalized groups. Anti-racism is usually structured around conscious efforts and deliberate actions to provide equitable opportunities for all people on an individual and systemic level. (Source: Wikipedia)
  • BIPOC: Black, Indigenous, (and) People of Color
    POC is widely used as an umbrella term for all people of color, but now a different acronym is suddenly gaining traction on the internet—BIPOC, which stands for Black, Indigenous, People of Color. People are using the term to acknowledge that not all people of color face equal levels of injustice. They say BIPOC is significant in recognizing that Black and Indigenous people are severely impacted by systemic racial injustices. (Source: Merriam Webster)
  • Climate justice: Links human rights and development to achieve a human-centered approach, safeguarding the rights of the most vulnerable people and sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change and its impacts equitably and fairly. Climate justice is informed by science, responds to science and acknowledges the need for equitable stewardship of the world's resources. (Source: Mary Robinson Foundation)
  • Conscious bias: Inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair. (Source: Oxford Dictionaries)
  • Colonization: the action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area. (Source: Oxford Dictionaries)
  • Dehumanization: The process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities. When humans are treated like a resource, it can result in a loss of self-esteem, dignity, and character. (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Discrimination: An action or a decision that treats a person or a group badly for reasons such as their race, age or disability. (Source: Canadian Human Rights Commission)
  • Disadvantaged communities: A community that, compared to the whole, has a higher percentage of elderly and/or minority populations, populations with below average per capita income, and/or above average unemployment. (Source: Defined Term)
  • Diversity: In business, this term usually refers to a heterogeneous mix of attributes within a workforce, including but not limited to gender, race, age, background, and education. Extensive research has documented that increased diversity drives innovation, creativity, and adaptability within a company. (Source: Conscious Company)
  • Environmental justice: The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. (Source: Global Change)
  • Equality: The same status, rights, and responsibilities for all the members of a society, group, or family. (Source: Collins Dictionary)
  • Gaslighting: Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgment. (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Gender: Gender is complex: It’s a social and legal status, and set of expectations from society, about behaviors, characteristics, and thoughts. (Source: LGBT Life Center)
  • Gender Identity: is the internal perception of one’s gender, and how they label themselves, based on how much they align or don’t align with what they understand their options for gender to be. (Source: LGBT Life Center)
  • Genderfluid: Applies to a person whose gender identity changes over time or changes at different times. (Source: LGBT Life Center)
  • Hispanophobia: or Anti-Spanish sentiment is a fear, distrust of, aversion to, hatred of, or discrimination against the Spanish language, Hispanic people, and/or Hispanic culture. (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Homophobia: Homophobia encompasses a range of negative attitudes and feelings toward homosexuality or people who are identified or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Inclusion: In the context of workplace culture, inclusion means harnessing the power of diversity by creating a welcoming environment of connection, support, and respect where people of different backgrounds are able to contribute at their fullest. (Source: Conscious Company)
  • Intersectionality: The complex, cumulative way in which the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism, sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in the experiences of marginalized individuals or groups. (Source: Merriam Webster)
  • Islamophobia: is - irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against Islam or people who practice Islam. (Source: Merriam Webster)
  • Microaggressions: a statement, action, or incident regarded as an instance of indirect, subtle, or unintentional. (Source: Oxford Dictionaries)
  • Non-binary: Non-binary, similar to genderqueer, is a spectrum of gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or exclusively feminine‍—‌identities that are outside the gender binary of male and female. (Source: LGBT Life Center)
  • Oppression: Oppression is malicious or unjust treatment or exercise of power, often under the guise of governmental authority or cultural opprobrium. Oppression may be overt or covert, depending on how it is practiced. (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Pronouns: are used in place of a proper noun (like someone’s name). We use pronouns most often when referring to someone without using their name. (Source: LGBT Life Center)
    • Some Examples:
      • He/Him - Variations: His, Himself
      • She/Her - Variations: Hers, Herself
      • They/Them - Variations: Theirs, themself
      • Ze (or Zie) - Variations: Can also be spelled as xe
      • Name -  Whatever their name is! Some people don’t want to use pronouns at all and will ask you to refer to them by their name alone.
  • Racism: Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. (Source: Oxford Dictionaries)
  • Sexism: prejudice or discrimination based on sex. (Source: Merriam Webster)
  • Slacktivism: The practice of supporting a political or social cause by means such as social media or online petitions, characterized as involving very little effort or commitment. (Source: Oxford Dictionaries)
  • Sinophobia: Anti-Chinese sentiment or Sinophobia involves sentiments such as hatred or fear of China, its people, its diaspora, or its culture. (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Social justice: The political and philosophical concept which holds that all people should have equal access to wealth, health, well-being, justice and opportunity. (Source: Investopedia)
  • Slurs: an insinuation or allegation about someone that is likely to insult them or damage their reputation. (Source: Oxford Dictionaries)
  • Stereotypes: In social psychology, a stereotype is an over-generalized belief about a particular category of people. It is an expectation that people might have about every person of a particular group. (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Sustainability: To be able to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. (Source: Sopact)
  • Systemic Racism: Institutional racism, also known as systemic racism, is a form of racism that is embedded as normal practice within society or an organization. It can lead to such issues as discrimination in criminal justice, employment, housing, health care, political power, and education, among other issues. (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Transgender: Applies to a person whose gender is different from their “assigned” sex at birth. Doctors typically assign gender based on sexual organs, but sex and gender are different. (Source: LGBT Life Center)
  • Transphobia: is a collection of ideas and phenomena that encompass a range of negative attitudes, feelings or actions towards transgender people or transness in general. (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Tokenism: is the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to be inclusive to members of minority groups, especially by recruiting people from underrepresented groups in order to give the appearance of racial or sexual equality within a workforce. (Source: Wikipedia)
  • Unconscious bias: Social stereotypes about certain groups of people that individuals form outside their own conscious awareness. (Source: UCFS)
  • Xenophobia: is - fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign. (Source: Merriam Webster)