Glossary

Abled: Word back-formation from the English "disabled", which means "not_disabled". People who are abled are not disabled in society. Their participation and acceptance is facilitated, for example, if they have little to no physical disability (in terms of normative standards), no (disabling) chronic or mental illness, neurodivergences or learning difficulties.

Ableism: structural marginalization of people who are disabled. People with disabilities are often not taken seriously, patronized and reduced to their disabilities. Exclusion from social participation, discrimination in public spaces, when looking for work (or a job), shaming, ableist language and acts of violence are typical everyday examples. Many places are not designed with people with disabilities in mind. Even queer, left-wing people and places with intersectional aspirations are often not ableist-sensitive, e.g. tokenism, ableist dating, hierarchization of certain bodies and abilities, enforcement of ableist practices (e.g. offline meetings, demos, academic language), ...

Cis: prefix, refers to the conformity of one's own gender identity with the gender assigned at birth. The gender of cis people is generally not questioned and is associated with structural privileges. A designation option for cis people prevents cis people from being regarded as "the normal" (although inter* people can also be cis) and everyone else as "the deviation".

DIY: DIY/Do It Yourself - often in connection with DIT (Do It Together). For many people, being able to do things (crafts, art, magazines, zines, music, etc.) alone or together means self-determination and independence from patriarchal and capitalist structures.

Empowerment: aims to (re)establish self-determination, self-empowerment and the ability to act. This is important because everyday life for marginalized people, e.g. LGBT*I*QA+, can be very violent. Empowerment can mean, for example, strengthening oneself from within, drawing strength alone or together, strengthening one's own and collective knowledge and skills. What people experience as empowering and what they don't is very different from person to person.

FLINT* (women, lesbians, inter*, non-binary and trans*): The abbreviation mainly occurs in relation to spaces or events that are exclusively aimed at FLINT* people. Cis men are excluded in order to create a protected space in a patriarchal society. There are different variants that emphasize different aspects, e.g. FLT(I)*, FINTQ, FLINT*A. FLINT* spaces are often criticized because in their implementation they often only refer to white cis women and are therefore discriminatory towards tin people, for example.

Intersectionality: deals with the entanglement of social and structural power relations. The focus is on the interaction of different forms of discrimination, such as gender, desire, race, age, classism and ability. These forms of discrimination are not separate from each other, but are interlinked and work together. It is important to recognize and take into account that every person has collective and individual experiences of marginalization. For example, there is a difference between living in Germany as a queer white person and as a queer Muslim person of color.

Macker: The german term Macker is used colloquially as a derogatory term for a cis man who presents himself in an exaggeratedly masculine way and is therefore related in content to terms such as chauvinist or macho.

Marginalization: (social) devaluation of groups of people due to certain ascribed characteristics. This results in displacement to the margins of society, e.g. through exclusion or reduced opportunities for social, economic, political or cultural life.

Patriarchy: A form of society that is shaped and represented by the norms and values of cis men. Often a key term in (queer_)feminist theories to understand and criticize discrimination against cis and trans women, non-binary and queer people.

Privileges: structural privileges or advantages that people (groups) have due to certain characteristics, such as class, gender, race, physical abilities, sexual desire. By fulfilling these characteristics, most of which cannot be acquired, people can, for example, participate more easily in social life or experience less discrimination and exclusion. A person experiences privileges and/or disadvantages in relation to individual characteristics. Becoming aware of one's own privileges and acting responsibly with them is often a long, never-ending process.

Queer feminism: variants of feminist movements that criticize cis-sexist structures. Goals include the abolition of power structures and the empowerment of LGBTIQ*A+ people. Queer feminisms include various approaches and positions, e.g. breaking down gender binaries and heteronormativity and demanding an intersectional view of discrimination. In contrast to many other feminisms, queer_feminist movements include trans* and queer perspectives.

Race: is a social construct through which people are racialized and which entails racism. The English-language term race is used more frequently, as the German-language term is strongly linked to biologistic, naturalistic ideas and colonial and National Socialist histories of violence.

Tokenism: when a person from a marginalized group (e.g. white, cis-heterosexual men) is instrumentalized in a structure with a strong dominance of one group in order to convey the impression of diversity and equality without accepting criticism or changing anything structurally. The person is supposed to represent the group ascribed to them and is reduced to the characteristics ascribed to them from the outside.

Source: Queerulant_in (https://www.queerulantin.de/materialien/glossar/)