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Outsider Gaze
A conceptual lens that views marginalized or intimate experiences from outside the system of lived memory - resulting in distortion, flattening, or epistemic harm. Core…
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Armchair Expert
A person who speaks with confidence and authority about a complex, emotionally charged, or marginalized experience they’ve never personally lived — often by relying on…
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Inclusion
Commonly framed as a moral good, inclusion is the act of inviting difference into existing structures. But without structural change, inclusion often becomes conditional -…
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Masking
The learned or unconscious suppression of natural behaviors, needs, or expressions to meet dominant expectations of communication, emotion, or professionalism.Often framed as adaptability, masking is…
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AI Mental Health Collective
The AI Mental Health Collective is a group of professionals, therapists, and academics who convene to map the emotional and relational terrain of AI companionship…
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Epistemic Harm
The injury caused when someone’s way of knowing is dismissed, misinterpreted, or structurally disqualified. Includes testimonial injustice, hermeneutical injustice, and the silencing of survivor narratives.…
