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Carl Benjamin
Carl Benjamin, aka Sargon of Akkad, is a British YouTuber and political commentator who rose during Gamergate, stood unsuccessfully for UKIP in the 2019 European elections, and directs the Lotus Eaters podcast.
Carlos Eduardo Espina
Carlos Eduardo Espina, Uruguayan-American immigration activist and Spanish-language TikTok creator with over 20 million followers; Vassar 2020, UNLV law 2024; founder of Migrantes Unidos; 2024 DNC speaker.
Caroline Ingalls
Caroline Ingalls (Caroline Lake Quiner Ingalls, 1839–1924), Wisconsin-born pioneer wife of Charles Ingalls and mother of Laura Ingalls Wilder; the real "Ma" of the Little House books, first De Smet settler.
Carrie Best
Carrie Best (1903–2001) was a Black Canadian journalist and civil rights activist from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, who co-founded The Clarion and publicized Viola Desmond's 1946 case.
Carrie Nation
Carrie Nation (Carry A. Nation, 1846–1911), American temperance activist known as the saloon smasher who attacked Kansas bars with a hatchet, was arrested 30 times, sold souvenir hatchets, and lectured until 1911.
Casa Pia de Lisboa
Casa Pia de Lisboa is a Portuguese public institute founded in Lisbon in 1780 by Diogo Inácio de Pina Manique to educate vulnerable children and young people.
Casting couch
Casting couch: the practice of demanding sexual favors in exchange for entertainment roles, a Hollywood-era term (printed by Variety by 1937) now applied worldwide, central to #MeToo and casting reforms.
Castro District, San Francisco
The Castro, San Francisco's historically LGBTQ neighborhood also called Eureka Valley, centered on Castro Street between Market and 19th; home of Harvey Milk's Castro Camera, the Castro Theatre, Twin Peaks Tavern, and the 2019 LGBTQ Cultural District.
Casual dating
Casual dating is dating without expecting serious commitment, distinct from hookups, booty calls, and friends-with-benefits arrangements. Key facts: Pew 2023 shows 40% of dating-app users seek casual dating; outcome research finds lower relationship quality is explained by selectivity.
Casual sex
Casual sex, also called hooking up or uncommitted sexual encounters, is sex outside a committed relationship. Covers its forms, 1960s naming, emotional outcomes research, declining rates among US young adults, and STI prevention.
Catafalque
Catafalque (Italian catafalco): raised, often draped platform on which a coffin or effigy rests during lying in state, or represents it in absence; includes the 1865 pine Lincoln catafalque and Westminster Hall's 2022 structure.
Catfishing
Catfishing is creating a false online identity to deceive someone, often romantically; also called romance scamming. Named from the 2010 documentary Catfish; FBI-reported US losses reached about $1 billion in 2021.
Catholic Church and homosexuality
Catholic Church and homosexuality: official teaching that homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered and the inclination objectively disordered, with respect and non-discrimination owed to persons; covers Catechism 2357–2359, CDF documents, seminary rules, and Fiducia supplicans blessings.
Cecile Richards
Cecile Richards (1957–2025), American political organizer and activist, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Action Fund 2006–2018; daughter of Texas Governor Ann Richards; grew supporters from 3 to 11 million; later co-founded Supermajority; received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2024.
Cecilia Gentili
Cecilia Gentili (1972–2024) was an Argentine-born transgender activist, author, and actress in New York City who directed policy at Gay Men's Health Crisis, founded Trans Equity Consulting, and acted in Pose.
Celebrity sex tape
Celebrity sex tape: privately recorded sexual video of a famous person released publicly, usually without consent. Genre began with the stolen 1995 Pamela Anderson–Tommy Lee tape; later cases include Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, and the Hulk Hogan–Gawker lawsuit.
Celestial marriage
Celestial marriage, in LDS doctrine, is temple marriage for time and eternity, sealed by priesthood authority; historically the term also denoted plural marriage, ended by the 1890 Manifesto.
Celibacy
Celibacy (Latin caelibatus) is the state of being unmarried and abstaining from sexual relations, practiced in Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism; Latin-rite Catholic priests must be celibate since the 11th-12th century, while Eastern churches allow married priests.
Censorship by Google
Censorship by Google covers content removal, restriction, demotion, and demonetization on Google Search and YouTube, covering policy scope, enforcement scale, LGBTQ disputes, misinformation reversals, and legal removals.
Central Park birdwatching incident
Central Park birdwatching incident, also called the Amy Cooper or Central Park Karen case: May 25, 2020 confrontation in which Amy Cooper falsely told 911 that Black birdwatcher Christian Cooper was threatening her after he asked her to leash her dog; she was fired, charged, and the charge was later dismissed.
Chad (slang)
Chad is English internet slang for an attractive, confident, sexually successful "alpha male," born in 1990s Chicago slang and reshaped by the 2013 Chad Thundercock and 2017 Virgin vs. Chad memes.
Chad Varah
Chad Varah (Edward Chad Varah, 1911–2007), Anglican priest and founder of the Samaritans, the 1953 London crisis telephone helpline for people considering suicide, pioneer of confidential volunteer befriening spread worldwide via Befrienders International.
Change.org
Change.org is an online petition platform where anyone can start and sign petitions for free, used by more than 500 million people and funded by member contributions.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Charlayne Hunter-Gault (born 1942) is an American journalist who desegregated the University of Georgia with Hamilton Holmes in 1961, then worked at the New York Times, The New Yorker, PBS NewsHour, NPR, and CNN, winning two Emmys and two Peabody Awards.
Charles Mzingeli
Charles Mzingeli (1905–1980) was a Zimbabwean labor activist and politician whose Reformed Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union dominated African urban politics in Salisbury, now Harare, from 1945 to the early 1950s.
Charlotte Laws
Charlotte Laws, American author and anti-revenge porn activist, 'Erin Brockovich of revenge porn'; fought Hunter Moore's isanyoneup.com after her daughter's hacked photo appeared there, and championed California SB 255.
Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning (born 1987), formerly Bradley Manning, is an American former Army intelligence analyst who leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, was sentenced to 35 years in 2013, and was released in 2017 after Obama commuted her sentence.
Cheryl Thomas
Cheryl Thomas is a Minneapolis human rights lawyer, founder of Global Rights for Women (2014) and former director of the Women's Human Rights Program at The Advocates for Human Rights; distinct from UCL jury scholar Cheryl Thomas.
Cheung Wing-sing (张永成)
Cheung Wing-sing (张永成, Zhāng Yǒngchéng, 1897–1960) was the wife of Wing Chun grandmaster Ip Man, mother of Yip Chun and Yip Ching, and a central character in the Ip Man film series.
Child abandonment
Child abandonment is the relinquishment of parental responsibility for a child, historically called expositio in Roman law. Known through foundling hospitals since 787 CE, the London Foundling Hospital, and modern US safe-haven laws, baby boxes, and confidential-birth alternatives.