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Sustainable Development Goal 5
Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) is a United Nations goal, adopted in 2015, to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls by 2030.
Swati Maliwal (स्वाति मालीवाल)
Swati Maliwal (स्वाति मालीवाल), Indian activist and Rajya Sabha MP from Delhi since January 2024; former Delhi Commission for Women chairperson (2015-2024), known for anti-rape hunger strikes, the 2024 Bibhav Kumar assault case, and later defection from AAP to the BJP.
Sylvia Rivera
Sylvia Rae Rivera (1951–2002) was an American gay liberation and transgender rights activist who said she took part in the 1969 Stonewall uprising and co-founded STAR to shelter homeless queer youth.
Tang ping (躺平)
Tang ping (躺平, lying flat) is a Chinese low-desire lifestyle and social discourse started by a 2021 viral post, rejecting overwork, competition, marriage, and consumption; related to neijuan involution and criticized by Chinese official media.
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Australian-American activist, founded SumOfUs (now Ekō) in 2011, led New Media Ventures 2020-2022, co-founded Golden Gate Institute for AI, and was Aaron Swartz's fiancée.
Tawana Brawley rape hoax
The Tawana Brawley rape hoax: a 1987 fabricated claim by a New York teenager of abduction and rape by six white men; a 1988 grand jury found no evidence, and 1998 defamation verdicts ordered her advisers to pay Steven Pagones $345,000.
Team Trees
Team Trees (#TeamTrees) is a 2019 reforestation fundraising campaign by YouTubers MrBeast and Mark Rober; $1 plants one tree via the Arbor Day Foundation, with over 25 million trees verified planted across six continents.
Ten stages of genocide
Ten Stages of Genocide: Gregory Stanton's model for Genocide Watch describing genocide as ten predictable, non-linear processes, from classification and dehumanization to extermination and denial, with prevention at every stage.
The Giving Pledge
The Giving Pledge, founded 2010 by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett, is a nonbinding promise by 250+ billionaires from 30 countries to give at least half their wealth to charity in life or wills.
The Negro Motorist Green Book
The Negro Motorist Green Book, an annual guide for Black American travelers under Jim Crow, published by Victor Hugo Green 1936-1967, listing businesses serving Black patrons, distributed via Esso stations.
The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006
The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 (PCMA), India's Act No. 6 of 2007, enforced 1 November 2007, replaced the 1929 Sarda Act, defining child marriage as involving a male under 21 or female under 18, with voidable marriages, two-year imprisonment penalties, and CMPO enforcement officers.
The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians
The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians is a May 11, 2026 New York Times opinion column by Nicholas Kristof on alleged sexual abuse of Palestinian detainees by Israeli forces, and the disparity in condemnation compared with October 7 victims.
The Third Wave (experiment)
The Third Wave, also called The Wave, was Ron Jones's 1967 classroom fascism experiment at Cubberley High School, Palo Alto, lasting about 5 to 8 days and ending with a rally of up to 200 students.
The Who concert disaster
The Who concert disaster: December 3, 1979 crowd crush at Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati, killed 11 fans during festival-seating ingress after a soundcheck was mistaken for the show; task force blamed crowd management.
Thích Quảng Đức
Thích Quảng Đức (釋廣德), Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk (1897–1963) who self-immolated in Saigon on 11 June 1963 protesting Ngô Đình Diệm's persecution of Buddhists; Malcolm Browne's photo won World Press Photo of the Year.
Tim Ballard
Tim Ballard, former DHS special agent, founded Operation Underground Railroad (now Our Rescue) in 2013 and inspired the 2023 film Sound of Freedom; he resigned in 2023 amid sexual misconduct lawsuits, church excommunication, and investigations that ended without charges.
Timothy Shriver
Timothy Shriver is an American educator and Chairman of Special Olympics International, founded by his mother Eunice Kennedy Shriver. He co-founded CASEL, founded UNITE.US, co-created the Dignity Index, and produced films including Amistad and Peanut Butter Falcon.
Toby Young
Toby Young (born 1963), Lord Young of Acton, is a British journalist and campaigner, son of Michael Young; founder of the Free Speech Union, co-founder of the West London Free School and the Modern Review.
Tokata Iron Eyes
Tokata (Tokatawin) Iron Eyes, later Gibson, is a Hunkpapa and Oglala Lakota Standing Rock Sioux youth climate activist who led the ReZpect Our Water campaign against the Dakota Access Pipeline at age 12 and later worked with Greta Thunberg.
Tokenism
Tokenism is the superficial inclusion of small numbers of marginalized group members to create an appearance of diversity. Rooted in Rosabeth Moss Kanter's 1977 token theory (performance pressures, boundary heightening, role entrapment) and applied to DEI critiques.
Tom Metzger
Tom Metzger (Thomas Linton Metzger, 1938-2020) was an American white supremacist, California KKK grand dragon, and founder of White Aryan Resistance, known for the cable show Race and Reason and the $12.5 million Seraw judgment.
Trainwreck: Balloon Boy
Trainwreck: Balloon Boy is a 2025 Netflix documentary directed by Gillian Pachter about the October 2009 Fort Collins incident in which Richard Heene reported son Falcon aboard a runaway homemade saucer balloon; authorities later called it a hoax.
Transhumanism
Transhumanism is an intellectual and cultural movement advocating the ethical use of technology to enhance human abilities and extend life, spiking in popularity in the 1990s.
Triple parentheses
Triple parentheses, or the (((echo))), is an antisemitic typographic symbol marking names or terms as Jewish. Originated on the 2014 Daily Shoah podcast; listed by the ADL as a hate symbol in June 2016.
Tubal Uriah Butler
Tubal Uriah Butler, known as Buzz Butler, was a Grenadian-born oilfield worker and trade union leader in Trinidad whose arrest attempt on June 19, 1937 triggered the Butler Oilfield Riots.
Tuesday Society
The Tuesday Society (Hwayohoe, 화요회) was a socialist organization formed in Seoul in 1924 under Japanese rule, and a founding faction of the Korean Communist Party.
Tushar Gandhi (तुषार आरुण गांधी)
Tushar Arun Gandhi (तुषार आरुण गांधी), born 1960, is an Indian author and activist, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, founder-president of the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, author of Let's Kill Gandhi, and a critic of the BJP-RSS.
Tyler Shultz
Tyler Shultz, Stanford-trained biologist and grandson of George Shultz, was the Theranos research engineer and whistleblower who exposed the $9 billion blood-testing fraud, then co-founded Flux Biosciences and Healthyr.
Ukrainian national revival
The Ukrainian national revival (Українське національне відродження) was an 18th- and 19th-century movement in the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires advocating national-cultural revival and nation formation.
Unified Syndical Confederation of Rural Workers of Bolivia
The Unified Syndical Confederation of Rural Workers of Bolivia (Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia, CSUTCB), founded in 1979, is Bolivia's largest federation of peasant unions.