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Bronze Age Pervert
Bronze Age Pervert (BAP) is a pseudonymous far-right online influencer and author of the 2018 self-published book Bronze Age Mindset, widely identified with Yale Ph.D. Costin Alamariu and associated with the manosphere and dissident right.
Buddhist views of marriage
Buddhist views of marriage treat marriage as a secular arrangement, neither holy nor unholy, with no canonical wedding rite and monks who bless couples but never officiate.
Bugchasing
Bugchasing is the pursuit of HIV-positive sexual partners to acquire HIV; giftgiving is its consensual counterpart. Rare, taboo practice in barebacking subcultures, shaped by internet forums and transformed by PrEP.
Bullying
Bullying is repeated aggressive behavior among youth involving a power imbalance, in person or online (cyberbullying). US school prevalence about 19%, with meta-analyses showing school anti-bullying programs reduce perpetration and victimization.
Bumble
Bumble is a dating app founded in 2014 by Whitney Wolfe Herd, known for its women-message-first rule, removed in August 2026; parent Bumble Inc. also owns Badoo and BFF.
Bundling (tradition)
Bundling, a courtship custom in Europe and colonial North America: courting couples shared a bed fully clothed, often separated by a board or bolster, to test compatibility before marriage; survives among Amish.
Burial vault (enclosure)
Burial vault (enclosure), also called outer burial container: a sealed, casket-enclosing grave structure, distinct from the simpler grave liner; not legally required in the U.S. but often mandated by cemeteries; concrete vaults date to Leo Haase's 1880 company.
Burned Haystack Dating Method
Burned Haystack Dating Method (BHDM), created 2023 by rhetoric professor Jennie Young, is a high-filter online dating strategy using 10 rules, 33 red flag rhetorical patterns, and "block to burn" blocking, spread via a 260,000-member Facebook group and her book Burn the Haystack.
Busby quintuplets
The Busby quintuplets, Olivia, Ava, Hazel, Parker, and Riley, born 2015 in Houston, are the first all-female quintuplets born in the United States and the first all-girl set worldwide since 1969, stars of TLC's OutDaughtered.
Bushra Shaikh
Bushra Shaikh, born 1982, is a British-Pakistani media commentator and former fashion entrepreneur who competed on The Apprentice in 2017 and founded the anti-racism organization Run Racism Out.
Butch and femme
Butch and femme are paired masculine and feminine lesbian identity categories that formed the core of 1940s-1950s US working-class lesbian bar culture, declined under 1970s feminist critique, and persist as queer identities.
Butler
A butler is the senior household professional who manages the front of house, providing personal service and logistics to the principal. The role requires anticipatory awareness and confidentiality.
Buy Nothing Day
Buy Nothing Day is an annual anti-consumerism protest day founded in 1992 by artist Ted Dave and Adbusters, urging a 24-hour buying moratorium on Black Friday each November.
C. P. Ellis
C.P. Ellis (Claiborne Paul Ellis, 1927–2005), Durham KKK Exalted Grand Cyclops who co-chaired the 1971 school desegregation charrette with Ann Atwater, renounced the Klan, and became a civil rights activist and union organizer.
Cadet branch
Cadet branch: a line of a royal or noble family descended from a younger son, as opposed to the senior line under primogeniture; also called branche cadette. Known through appanages, heraldic cadency marks, and dynasties like Valois, Bourbon, Lancaster, and York.
Call girl
A call girl, or escort prostitute, is a female sex worker who arranges meetings with clients by phone or internet rather than working from a fixed location.
Camila Batmanghelidjh
Camila Batmanghelidjh, also known as Kamylā Batmanghelych, was an Iranian-born British psychotherapist and charity leader who founded Kids Company in London in 1996 and led it until its 2015 closure.
Camille Étienne
Camille Étienne (born 1998) is a French climate and social justice activist, Sciences Po and Oxford alumna, spokesperson of On Est Prêt, author of Pour un soulèvement écologique (2023), and PFAS campaigner.
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is a British advocacy group founded in 1958 that campaigns for abolishing nuclear weapons, best known for the Aldermaston marches, the slogan Ban the Bomb, and its peace symbol logo.
Canada convoy protest
Canada convoy protest (Freedom Convoy): 2022 trucker demonstrations against COVID-19 vaccine mandates that occupied Ottawa and blockaded U.S. border crossings, prompting Canada's first-ever Emergencies Act invocation, later ruled unreasonable by the Federal Court of Appeal.
Cancel culture
Cancel culture is the public calling out and ostracism of norm transgressors on social media, involving shaming, boycotts, and deplatforming. Rooted in Black Twitter callout practice, widely discussed after #MeToo and the 2020 Harper's letter.
Candaulism
Candaulism is a sexual practice in which a person exposes their partner, or images of them, to others for voyeuristic pleasure, named after King Candaules of Lydia.
Candy Carson
Candy Carson, born Lacena Rustin, is an American author, musician, and philanthropist; wife of Ben Carson, co-founder of the Carson Scholars Fund (1994), Yale-trained violinist with a Johns Hopkins MBA, and author of the 2016 memoir A Doctor in the House.
Cangaço
Cangaço was a form of rural banditry in the backlands of Northeastern Brazil from roughly 1870 to 1940, whose most famous leader was Lampião, the "King of the Cangaço".
Cannibalism in Asia
Cannibalism in Asia covers both actual human anthropophagy in Asian history, from Tang-dynasty Arabic accounts to famine-era records, and the colonial and imperial discourses that attributed cannibalism to Asian peoples.
Capital punishment for homosexuality
Capital punishment for homosexuality: execution for consensual same-sex conduct, once a capital crime in all thirteen American colonies and now imposed or possible in about 12 jurisdictions including Iran, northern Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, and Yemen.
Capitol Crawl
The Capitol Crawl was a disability rights protest on March 12, 1990, when about 60 activists of the ADAPT-led march crawled up the 78 Capitol steps to demand passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed July 26, 1990.
Capitol Hill Occupied Protest
Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP), also CHAZ, was a six-block police-free protest zone in Seattle lasting 23 days in June 2020 after police abandoned the East Precinct amid George Floyd protests; it ended in a July 1 sweep after deadly shootings.
Car-free movement
Car-free movement: advocacy and policy to reduce or exclude private cars from urban streets. Includes World Carfree Day (22 September), Oslo's Livability Programme, Paris's traffic reduction, and measured air, traffic and retail effects.
Carceral feminism
Carceral feminism, a term coined by Elizabeth Bernstein, criticizes feminist reliance on police, courts, and prisons against sexual and gendered violence; opposed by abolition feminism associated with Angela Davis and Mimi Kim.