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the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
What is intersectionality
A social system in which men hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property.
What is patriarchy?
Founded in 2014, is a dynamic political hub that galvanizes the social and political power of working-class Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people toward liberation.
An ever-expanding blueprint and ideology that helps Black people understand ourselves, our communities, and our world. It allows us to examine, explain, and navigate the relationships that exist between systems of power, in particular the intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality, ability, and beyond while centering ourselves in the process.
What is Black Feminisms?
“To be able” to shape our lives and the world around us. It is not good or bad; it’s neutral.
______is a description of one’s position under capitalism, describing whether one owns the means of production or if they have to sell their labor in order to survive.
What is class?
A loosely organized but sustained campaign in support of a social goal, typically either the implementation or the prevention of a change in society’s structure or values.
What is movement?
a political and economic system that is dependent on private ownership of the means of production and the accumulation of wealth by those owners who exploit working class people for profit.
What is capitalism?
____ is the process of building organizations of people with similar interests who use their collective power to win immediate improvements in people's lives and alter the relations of power.
What is organizing?
a meeting with a member to build deeper relationships and increase their leadership capacity and commitment to the organization.
What is a 1:1?
A movement framework that centers queer and transgender disabled people of color. It recognizes the intersecting legacies of white supremacy, colonial capitalism, gendered oppression and ableism in understanding how people's’ bodies and minds are labelled ‘deviant’, ‘unproductive’, ‘disposable’ and/or ‘invalid’.
What is Disability Justice?
______is a societal structure based in a classless society, preceded by a socialist state.
What is communism?
The rejection of trans identity and a refusal to acknowledge that it could possibly be real or valid. There is not a single or simple manifestation of is belief and behavior. It can manifest as abuse, removal of rights, misrepresentation, exclusion fro discussions that directly affect them and other forms of discrimination.
What is transphobia?
______ is the dislike of, contempt of, or ingrained prejudice directed towards Black women where race and gender both play roles in bias.
What is misogynoir?
The individual who has the power to give us what we want (often the key decision-maker).
_____is replacing existing values and government structure, this can often mean the change in political, economic and social structures in society.
What is revolution?
someone with a high level of commitment to our work, who takes initiative in analyzing problems and thinking through solutions. Leaders take responsibility for moving our organization forward.
What is a leader?
The human right to control our sexuality, our gender, our work, and our reproduction. That right can only be achieved when all women and girls have the complete economic, social, and political power and resources to make healthy decisions about our bodies, our families, and our communities in all areas of our lives.
What is Reproductive Justice?
Describes false or inaccurate information—getting the facts wrong.
The agreement between and support for the members of a group, especially a political group:
What is solidarity?
______is when a country enacts its military, social and political power over other countries for the purposes of stealing their wealth, land and resources, or enacting political domination. According to Lenin, this is the highest form of capitalism.
What is imperialism?
The philosophy that believes in fundamental rights of individuals. The right to private property, freedom to compete, and engage in free markets.
What is neoliberalism?
A reciprocal system whee those that benefit are also feeding back in and support other with either services, money, or other value adding measures.
What is mutual aid?
Organizing theory and practice that seeks to transform systems while also transforming the consciousness of the people being organized, as well as the consciousness of the organizer.
What is Transformative Organizing?
A framework that identifies how we can holistically respond to and intervene on generational trauma and violence and to bring collective practices that can impact and transform the consequences of oppression on our bodies, hearts and minds.
What is Healing Justice?