Glossary
Here are a few terms you may see on We Rep STEM. This glossary is a work in progress and will be continually updated. Feel free to contact us with suggestions.
- AAVE (acronym)
- Able-bodied
- Ableism
- Ageism
- Ally
- BAME (acronym)
- Cisgender
- Code-switching
- DEI (acronym)
- Diversity
- Ethnicity
- First-generation or First-gen
- Gaslighting
- Genderqueer
- Heteronormative
- Impostor syndrome
- Inclusion
- Intersectional / Intersectionality
- Jim Crow laws
- LGBTQ (acronym)
- Microaggression
- Misogyny
- Non-binary
- Performative ally
- POC (acronym)
- Race
- Redlining
- SciComm
- STEM (acronym)
- Stereotype
- Systemic racism
- TERF (acronym)
- URM (acronym)
- WASP (acronym)
- Woke
- Xenophobia