A sexual orientation in which a person feels physically and emotionally attracted to people of a gender other than their own.
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Gender
A social construct used to classify a person as a man, woman, or some other identity. Fundamentally different from the sex one is assigned at birth.
Colorism
Using white skin color as the standard, colorism is the allocation of privilege and favor to lighter skin colors and disadvantage to darker skin colors. Colorism operates both within and across racial and ethnic groups.
Source: Burton, Linda M et al., “Critical Race Theories, Colorism, and the Decade’s Research on Families of Color,” Journal of Marriage and Family 72 (2010), pp. 440–459
BIPOC
A term referring to “Black and/or Indigenous People of Color.” While “POC” or People of Color is often used as well, BIPOC explicitly leads with Black and Indigenous identities, which helps to counter anti-Black racism and invisibilization of Native communities.
Source: Creating Cultures and Practices for Racial Equity: A Toolbox for Advancing Racial Equity for Arts and Cultural Organizations, Nayantara Sen & Terry Keleher, Race Forward (2021)
Bigotry
Intolerant prejudice that glorifies one’s own group and denigrates members of other groups.
Source: National Conference for Community and Justice, St. Louis Region. Unpublished handout used in the Dismantling Racism Institute program.
Accommodation
An adjustment to make a program, facility, or resource accessible to a person with a disability.
Access barriers
Any obstruction that prevents people with disabilities from using standard facilities, equipment and resources.
Biological essentialism
The belief that some traits and behaviors are innate and biological in humans rather than the effects of the culture, environment, etc.
Racial essentialism
The belief that some traits, abilities, and characteristics are innate biological differences between racial groups.
Social Determinants of Health
Social Determinants of Health are the conditions and environments that people are born, grow, live, work, play, and age in that affect health and quality-of-life.
