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Epistemic Sovereignty
Epistemic sovereignty is the right of a person or community to retain authority over their own lived reality, interpretation, and meaning-making, especially when external systems attempt…
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Epistemic Extraction
Epistemic extraction is the act of adopting concepts, language, or insights developed through lived experience (especially by marginalized or under-recognized individuals) and repackaging them for…
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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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Epistemic Harm
Epistemic harm occurs when a person or group is injured not physically or emotionally, but in their capacity to know, be known, or have their…
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Psychiatric Harm
Psychiatric harm is the emotional, psychological, or existential damage caused by psychiatric systems that misname, dismiss, overpathologize, or strip away agency. It often occurs not…
