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IDL GLOSSARY
Language to Navigate Our Site & Your Life
(in progress)
P p
Pan-Africanism
Pansexual
PCS / Post Concussion Syndrom
Pedagogy
Periods
Pet Adoption
Pinkwashing
Play
POC / NBPOC
People (Person) of Colour / Non-Black People (Person) of Colour
a general term used to refer to a common set of cultural values, interests or experiences of all non-white people.
Non-Black people whose physical characteristic are recognized as non-white by white people and/or within white communities.
a term that broadly defines those negatively impacted by white people / white communities through a global legacy of erasure and centering white identity.
an acronym that unites or assumes a shared identity, belief system, values and/or experiences resulting from a person’s / group’s visibility (non-whiteness) within systems founded on white supremacy, rather than that person / group’s specific experiences such as: family history, culture, values and access to equity within systems founded on white supremacy.