The glossary.

Black and white thinking, or two poles that exist on a spectrum. However, the spectrum is ignored. Binary is the latin version of the Greek dichotomy: Binary thinking is when you think there are only two categories with the assumption that each exists in and of itself. However, a binary is whenever those two categories actually cannot stand alone, the absence of one constitutes the other.

The ideology that occupies the colonial mind. It is an ideology of ownership and exploitation.

Is what occurs in the mind of an oppressed person who has to perform a particular version of oneself for their oppressor and then has an additional performance of the self for their own community.

It is the active process of choosing particular language to build acceptability depending on circumstance.

The discomfort when your actions and behaviors contradict your values and beliefs; it is the distance between who you think you are and how you actually move through the world. This can be understood as the distance between your intentions and your impacts.

The expansion of Christian morality to a universalism imposing a singular code of conduct of truth on everyone everywhere throughout all of history.

Injury, damage, or death of any form of the self; anything that has a negative impact on personhood.

Religion specific codes of conduct and beliefs that distinguish between right and wrong according to internal theologies.

The hyper-sexualization, fetishization of the east by the west; discursive power embedded in intellectualism and colonialism; it is the power to represent someone else in arenas that build credibility.

The power to represent others before they are given the opportunity to represent themselves.

The public sphere.

Power in control over the collective destiny of another group. The ability to affect the collective destiny of another group; power can only exist in relationship.

The reduction of a group of people to a color.

The ideology that reduces a group of people to a color.

The idea that a group of people who look the same, speak the same language, have the same values and beliefs, and inhabit the same geographical region have the right to determine who and how they are ruled.

The sacrality of the nation state. The sacrality of the group of people and the geographical region that is entitled to self-determination.

The internalization of your oppressors standards which can never be met by the oppressed.

a completely fabricated concept of the self. The version of yourself that appears in “safe spaces.”

An ideology which is a way of thinking

The processes that make real an -ism

State of being

identity theft. When a group or person that has power takes aspects of an oppressed cultural identity and makes it their own. Visibility and access allows appropriation which equals cultural theft. Cultural sharing can only occur when there is no power dynamic. Appropriation means there is a power dynamic with the more powerful stealing aspects of identity from the less powerful and then the person in power becomes the credible authentic source of that stolen cultural aspect.

When an oppressed group absorbs, internalizes, and then performs their oppressors cultural norms and attitudes in order to gain acceptance into the broader cultural milieu.

When the dominant culture has effectively appropriated an aspect of a non-dominant culture and repackages it so it becomes the new dominant form rather than the indigenous form.

The radical ideology that women are people.

what you are (meat suit)

who you are