Agency is a person’s capacity to make choices and act in accordance with their values and desires. Agency is shaped by one’s social location, power, and material resources, and structural constraints. It can be individual or collective. Rights-based...

Decolonial refers to ways of being and knowing outside of Western coloniality . It involves the resurgence of diverse forms of knowledges, histories, and ways of being. Indigenous feminists assert that decolonization requires the material restitution...

Anti-racism refers to beliefs, actions, and practices that challenge and oppose everyday racism. Anti-racist approaches require the recognition of the pervasiveness of racism throughout society, within institutions and in our consciousness in ways we...

Critical consciousness is a historical and political understanding of why society is unequal and unjust. Critical consciousness helps people understand the root causes of oppression in society and imagine the possibilities of socially just futures...

Feminist praxis means the linking of intellectual theory and political action to achieve on the ground results like policy change or resourcing. The word praxis means “the practice of”, coming from Greek and Latin origins meaning “to do”. Feminist...

Gender justice means ending gender inequality and providing redress. When we say “to achieve gender justice”, we mean that discrimination and oppression on the basis of gender ends with some level of accountability by those who were oppressing or...

Reparative education refers to material, epistemic, pedagogic and relational modes of reparative redress in education. Reparative education involves policy, curricular, and pedagogic interventions that can create shared understandings of past and...

Collective care refers to a feminist ethic that views communities being responsible for each other’s well-being. It recognizes the toll that systems of oppression take on mental, emotional, and physical health. Feminists emphasize the radical...

Collective power refers to the capacity of a group to bring about social transformation through organized political mobilization and action. Feminist activists often emphasize that significant social change requires building coalitions and solidarity...

Solidarity is feeling and acting in support of a collective group, based on trust. It is based on grounding in shared values and commitments. . Solidarity aims to pull together diverse groups into a unified movement while recognizing that individuals...