“Promoting diversity and inclusion means creating environments where a wide range of individuals are represented, respected, and valued, ensuring everyone feels included, has equitable access to opportunities, and is empowered to participate fully. It involves acknowledging and celebrating differences in characteristics like race, gender, age, and background, while also fostering a culture of belonging where all voices are heard and contributions are recognized.”
“Privileges . . . are the specific benefits or advantages that come with possessing privilege. These can include access to better education, healthcare, job opportunities, and social networks. Privileges can also be more subtle, such as not having to worry about being discriminated against or harassed due to one’s race or gender. Privileges can be both tangible and intangible, and they often work together to reinforce existing power structures and inequalities.”
“3 A politician must appeal to the people: the public, the common people, the little people, the rank and file, the masses, the multitude, the millions, the man in the street, John Q. Public; commoners, the common run; the lower classes, the lower orders, the working class, the working man, the mob, the rabble, the herd, the crowd, the great unwashed, the hoi polloi.”
from – Family Word Finder: Reader’s Digest. The Reader’s Digest Association, 1975.
“pregnant person: A pregnant person is an individual with a fetus developing inside their body, typically within the uterus. The term is used to be inclusive of all people who can become pregnant, such as transgender men and nonbinary individuals, in addition to cisgender women. The process of pregnancy involves conception, implantation of the fertilized egg, and the subsequent development of the embryo into a fetus, usually lasting about 40 weeks.” – google
holly troy ~ sacred folly 