Traffic Light System: Green, Yellow, and Red in Consent
The traffic light system uses green, yellow, and red as simple signals for continuing, slowing down or checking in, and stopping during intimate or BDSM activities.
Gendered Insult: Gender Stereotypes, Sexism, and Derogatory Language
A gendered insult attacks someone through stereotypes or judgments about gender, masculinity, femininity, gender identity, expression, sexuality, or expected social roles.
Language Reclamation: Reclaiming Stigmatized Words and Identity
Language reclamation is the process of reusing stigmatizing or derogatory words as positive, neutral, humorous, political, or identity-affirming expressions.
Sexual Neologism: New Words for Sex, Dating, and Identity
A sexual neologism is a newly created word, expression, label, or meaning used to describe sexuality, dating, attraction, gender, relationships, or sexual culture.
Pejorative Label: Negative, Derogatory, and Stigmatizing Terms
A pejorative label is a word used to describe a person, group, identity, or behavior in a negative, dismissive, insulting, or stigmatizing way.
Risk-Aware Consent: Informed Choice, Boundaries, and Sexual Safety
Risk-aware consent means agreeing to an activity with a reasonable understanding of its important risks, limits, possible consequences, and available safety measures.
Sexualized Insult: Sexual Shaming, Stigma, and Derogatory Language
A sexualized insult uses sexuality, sexual reputation, bodies, gender, or sexual orientation to shame, demean, ridicule, or socially devalue someone.
Self-Descriptor: Identity Labels, Self-Identification, and Language
A self-descriptor is a word or label a person uses to describe their own identity, experiences, sexuality, gender, relationships, or other personally meaningful characteristics.
Reclaimed Slur: Language, Identity, Stigma, and Reappropriation
A reclaimed slur is a formerly derogatory term that some members of the targeted group reuse as a positive, neutral, humorous, political, or identity-affirming expression.
Vulgar Register: Crude, Explicit, and Socially Taboo Language
Vulgar register is a highly informal style containing crude, obscene, explicit, or socially inappropriate expressions, including many terms related to sex and bodies.