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Kama Sutra (कामसूत्र)
The Kama Sutra (कामसूत्र) is a Sanskrit treatise on erotic love and the art of living, covering topics from sexual positions to marriage and life as a courtesan.
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (ಕಮಲಾದೇವಿ ಚಟ್ಟೋಪಾಧ್ಯಾಯ)
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (ಕಮಲಾದೇವಿ ಚಟ್ಟೋಪಾಧ್ಯಾಯ, 1903–1988), Indian freedom fighter, feminist, and Congress Socialist Party founder; first woman to contest a legislative seat in India (1926) and post-independence leader of the handicrafts revival.
Karen (slang)
Karen is pejorative slang for an entitled, demanding middle-aged white woman, stereotyped with a blond bob and demanding to speak to the manager; attested by 2005, it exploded in 2018-2020 via Black Twitter and viral videos like Central Park Karen.
Karen Spencer, Countess Spencer
Karen Spencer, Countess Spencer (Karen Gordon), Canadian philanthropist, founder of Whole Child International (2004), third wife of the 9th Earl Spencer from 2011, chatelaine of Althorp, Ashoka Fellow, and party to the Jarman MS privacy settlement.
Karenna Gore
Karenna Gore, eldest daughter of Al and Tipper Gore, is an American lawyer, author, and environmental advocate; she founded the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in 2015 and organized the 2014 Religions for the Earth conference.
Kārśandās Mūljī
Kārśandās Mūljī (Karsandas Mulji) was a Gujarati journalist and social reformer of Bombay, born in 1832, who edited Satya Prakash and won the 1862 Maharaj Libel Case.
Kartini
Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879–1904), Javanese noblewoman of Jepara in the Dutch East Indies, feminist and national hero of Indonesia whose Dutch-language letters, published as Door Duisternis tot Licht (1911), championed women's education and emancipation; commemorated annually on 21 April as Kartini Day.
Kate Lister (writer)
Kate Lister (Kathryn Louise Lister, born 1981) is a British historian, author, and columnist, Senior Lecturer at Leeds Trinity University, creator of Whores of Yore, and author of A Curious History of Sex and Harlots, Whores and Hackabouts.
Kate Millett
Kate Millett (1934–2017), American feminist writer, sculptor, and activist; author of Sexual Politics (1970), the foundational radical feminist analysis of patriarchy, drawn from her Columbia PhD thesis; also known for The Loony-Bin Trip and the Millett Center for the Arts.
Kathleen Buhle
Kathleen Buhle, American nonprofit executive and author, ex-wife of Hunter Biden (married 1993-2017), author of the 2022 Crown memoir If We Break, founder of The House at 1229, colon cancer survivor, 2024 trial witness.
Kathoey
Kathoey (กะเทย) is a Thai term for people assigned male at birth with feminine gender identity or expression, traditionally a third sex; alternatives include sao praphet song and phuuying kham phet.
Katrina Johnson (model)
Katrina Anne Castañeda Johnson, Filipino-American pharmacist and beauty queen from Davao, Binibining Pilipinas International 2025 and 2023 first runner-up, representing the Philippines at Miss International 2026 in Tokyo.
Katy Faust
Katy Faust, American conservative activist against same-sex marriage; founder and president of Them Before Us (2018) and spokeswoman for the Greater Than campaign; author of Them Before Us (2021), framing marriage as children's rights.
Kawthoolei
Kawthoolei is the homeland envisioned by Karen nationalists in southeastern Myanmar, meaning "the land without darkness." The Karen National Union has claimed and partly governed it since 1949.
Kay Adroa
Kay Adroa, second wife of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, a Makerere student daughter of Reverend Adroa, married in Arua in 1966, divorced 1974, found dead August 13, 1974.
Kayla Mueller
Kayla Jean Mueller (1988–2015) was an American humanitarian aid worker from Prescott, Arizona, kidnapped by ISIS in Aleppo on August 4, 2013, held about 18 months, and confirmed dead in February 2015 after ISIS claimed a Jordanian airstrike killed her.
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey
Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey is a 2022 Netflix four-episode documentary, directed by Rachel Dretzin, on Warren Jeffs's rise and fall in the FLDS, told through ex-member testimonies and his 2011 life-sentence conviction.
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull
Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull (Posie Parker), British anti-trans activist born 1974, founder of Standing for Women and the Let Women Speak rallies; her 2023 Australasia tour drew neo-Nazis in Melbourne and was shut down in Auckland.
Kennedy curse
Kennedy curse: popular label for the deaths and scandals of the Kennedy political family, coined by media after Ted Kennedy's 1969 Chappaquiddick accident; covers Joe Jr.'s 1944 death, the JFK and RFK assassinations, and later tragedies, though skeptics call it a media myth.
Kennewick Man
Kennewick Man, the Ancient One to five Columbia Plateau tribes, is a roughly 8,500-year-old adult male skeleton found in 1996 in the Columbia River, Washington. His 2015 genome showed Native American ancestry, closest to the Colville, leading to NAGPRA repatriation and reburial in 2017.
Kenosha unrest
The Kenosha unrest, August 2020: protests and rioting after police shot Jacob Blake, ending in the Kyle Rittenhouse shootings that killed two and wounded one.
Kenosha unrest shooting
Kenosha unrest shooting: Kyle Rittenhouse's fatal August 25, 2020 shootings of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz during Kenosha protests after Jacob Blake's police shooting; Rittenhouse acquitted in 2021.
Kevin Spacey sexual misconduct allegations
Kevin Spacey sexual misconduct allegations: accusations beginning with Anthony Rapp in October 2017, the Old Vic inquiry, US and UK criminal cases ending in acquittal or dismissal, the $31 million MRC arbitration, and civil settlements.
Khadijah Farrakhan
Khadijah Farrakhan (Betsy Ross, 1936-2026), Mother Khadijah, First Lady of the Nation of Islam, wife of Louis Farrakhan for 72 years, married 1953, nine children, spoke at the 1997 Million Woman March.
Khalid Abdul Muhammad
Khalid Abdul Muhammad (Harold Moore Jr., 1948–2001), American black nationalist, Nation of Islam spokesman under Louis Farrakhan, later New Black Panther Party chairman; notorious for the 1993 Kean College antisemitic speech and the 1998 Million Youth March.
Khazarian Mafia
Khazarian Mafia, or Khazar Mafia, is an antisemitic conspiracy theory claiming Ashkenazi Jews descend from Khazar converts and secretly control global finance and politics; historians and geneticists reject it, and it was used to justify Russia's Ukraine invasion.
Killing of Brianna Ghey
Murder of Brianna Ghey, 16-year-old transgender girl stabbed 28 times in Culcheth Linear Park, Warrington, on 11 February 2023 by Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe, jailed for minimum 22 and 20 years.
Killing of Charlie Howard
The killing of Charlie Howard was the July 7, 1984 anti-gay murder of a 23-year-old man thrown from Bangor, Maine's State Street bridge into the Kenduskeag Stream by three teenagers later convicted of manslaughter; it galvanized Maine LGBTQ+ rights organizing and EqualityMaine.
Kim Davis
Kim Davis, former Rowan County, Kentucky clerk, refused same-sex marriage licenses after Obergefell (2015), was jailed for contempt, lost a $360,000 damages judgment, and was denied Supreme Court review in 2020 and 2025.
Kim Maria
Kim Maria (김마리아, born Sang-jin; 1892–1944) was a Korean independence activist and educator who led the Korean Patriotic Women's Association and served in the Korean Provisional Government's assembly.