Disability
A functional limitation that affects an individual’s ability to perform certain functions. ABILITY magazine. (n.d.). Guidelines to terminology. Retrieved from http://www.abilitymagazine.com/terminology.html. (ADA) A person who has a physical or mental […]
Discrimination
Behavior that treats people unequally because of their group memberships. Discriminatory behavior, ranging from slights to hate crimes, often begins with negative stereotypes and prejudices. Southern Poverty Law Center. (n.d.). […]
Diversity
Diversity includes all the ways in which people differ, and it encompasses all the different characteristics that make one individual or group different from another. A broad definition includes not […]
Domestic Partner
Domestic partnerships create a legal relationship for the couple that is like marriage in manystates. In many states domestic partnerships mean that the couple will be treated the same as […]
Drag/Drag Queen or King
Men who dress as women for entertaining others at bars, clubs or other events. The term drag king refers to women who dress as men for entertaining others at bars, clubs […]
Dysphoria
profound state of unease or dissatisfaction. Dysphoria may accompany depression, anxiety, or agitation.It can also mean someone that is not comfortable in their current body, particularly in cases of gender […]
Emigration
The act of leaving one’s own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad. See also immigration. Emigration (n.d.). In Oxford Dictionaries Online, Retrieved February 19, 2016, from http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/emigration.
Empowerment
When target group members refuse to accept the dominant ideology and their subordinate status and take actions to redistribute social power more equitably. Adams, M., Bell, L. A., and Griffin, […]
Equity
The proactive reinforcement of policies, practices, attitudes and actions that produce equitable power, access, opportunities, treatment, impacts and outcomes for all. Applied Research Center. (2009). Catalytic change: Lessons learned from […]
Ethnicity
A dynamic set of historically derived and institutionalized ideas and practices that (1) allows people to identify or to be identified with groupings of people based on presumed (and usually […]
