Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
Terms You Need to Know Ally: a person or group that provides assistance and support in an ongoing effort, activity, or struggle
Gender Fluid: denoting or relating to a person who does not identify themselves as having a fixed gender
Anti-Black Racism: an injurious and specific stressor that pose violent threats to the biological, psychological, physical, cultural, and social health and the associated interlocking identities of the Black person (e.g., anti-Black misogyny, anti-Black misandry, antiBlack homophobia)
Inclusion: the action or state of including or of being included within a group or structure
Black Codes: sometimes called Black Laws; were laws governing the conduct of African Americans BIPOC: an acronym that stands for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Call-Out Culture: the practice, in social justice circles, of publicly criticizing people for violating accepted behavioral standards Discrimination: the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex Diversity: the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc. Equity: the quality of being fair and impartial
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Indigenous: according to the United Nations, the term “Indigenous People” refers to populations/cultures who had established a homeland and inhabited that area prior to colonization. This is why the Permanent Forum is legally named “The Indigenous Peoples Permanent Forum” Interpersonal Discrimination: targeted (and often repeated) behaviors directed toward a person based on their membership in a stigmatized group Jim Crow Laws: state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States John Henryism: oping in unrealistic circumstances for a short life span, which explains why African American men tend to have a shorter life-span than other groups Juneteenth: the oldest nationally celebrated holiday, on June 19th, commemorating the end of slavery in the United States in 1865 LGBT: an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
