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Kimberlé Crenshaw
Kimberlé Crenshaw, American legal scholar at Columbia and UCLA who coined "intersectionality" in 1989, elaborated it in 1991, co-founded the African American Policy Forum, and launched #SayHerName.
Kink (sexuality)
Kink, closely tied to BDSM, is an umbrella term for consensual sexual interests outside cultural norms, including power exchange, fetishism, and pain play; prevalence estimates range from a few percent to nearly half, and clinical guidelines now support kink-affirming care.
Kinsey scale
The Kinsey scale, or Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale, is a 0-to-6 continuum plus X created by Alfred Kinsey's team, first published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), rating sexual orientation from interview histories rather than any official test.
Kinship
Kinship: the culturally recognized web of relationships based on descent, marriage, and created ties; central topic of anthropology from Morgan's 1871 terminology classification through Schneider's 1984 critique to new kinship studies.
Kinship care
Kinship care, also called family and friends care, is the raising of children by relatives or close family friends rather than parents. It spans informal, voluntary, and formal arrangements; about 141,000 children in England and Wales live in it, and outcomes beat unrelated foster care but trail the general population.
Kiwi Farms
Kiwi Farms is an American harassment forum founded by Joshua Moon, descended from the CWCki wiki, known for lolcow threads and the September 2022 #DropKiwiFarms deplatforming by Cloudflare and other infrastructure firms.
Kiyoshi Kuromiya
Kiyoshi Kuromiya (1943–2000), Japanese American Philadelphia activist; GLF-Philadelphia co-founder, Selma marcher, Black Panther convention delegate, and founder of the Critical Path AIDS Project.
Klismaphilia
Klismaphilia (also klysmaphilia) is a paraphilia of sexual arousal from receiving or administering enemas, coined by psychiatrist Joanne Denko in 1973; classified under DSM-5 other specified paraphilic disorder, with reported fatal risk from rectal alcohol enemas.
Ko Yong Suk (고용숙)
Ko Yong Suk (고용숙) is Kim Jong Un's maternal aunt, sister of Ko Yong Hui, who cared for him in Switzerland and defected to the United States via the Geneva embassy in May 1998, later suing defectors over claims about her family.
Korean National Youth Corps
The Korean National Youth Corps (대한청년단), romanized Daehan Cheongnyeondan, was a right-wing anti-communist youth organization created by President Syngman Rhee in December 1948 and dissolved in 1953.
Korean nationalism
Korean nationalism (민족주의) is the modern ideology of constituting and mobilizing the Korean nation. Born in resistance to Japanese colonial rule and crystallized by the 1919 March First Movement, it took ethnic form and split into South Korean developmental nationalism and North Korean Juche after 1945.
Korean Peasant Federation
The Korean Peasant Federation (조선농민총동맹, 朝鮮農民總同盟) was the nationwide leadership body of the peasant movement in colonial Korea, formed in 1927 by splitting the Korean Labor-Farmer General Federation.
Korean War orphans
Korean War orphans were the roughly 100,000 children left parentless by the Korean War, a crisis that led South Korea to begin overseas adoption in 1954.
Kōtahitanga
Kōtahitanga is a Māori word meaning unity, given to pan-tribal Māori unity movements, especially the Kotahitanga Parliament of the 1890s that sought Māori self-government and Treaty implementation.
Kunyaza
Kunyaza (kachabali in Uganda) is a traditional Central African sexual technique from Rwanda and the Great Lakes region in which a man rhythmically taps the clitoris and labia with the glans of his erect penis to trigger female orgasm and liquid expulsion, documented for at least 150 years.
Kyiv pogrom (1881)
The Kyiv pogrom was an anti-Jewish riot in Kiev, Russian Empire, on May 8, 1881, part of the pogrom wave following Tsar Alexander II's assassination.
Kyiv pogroms (1919)
The Kyiv pogroms of 1919 were anti-Jewish attacks during the Russian Civil War, including an October pogrom by Volunteer Army soldiers that killed about 300 people.
Labour Day
Labour Day (Labor Day, International Workers' Day) is a workers' holiday on May 1 in about 172 countries, rooted in the 1886 eight-hour strike and Haymarket affair; the US and Canada observe it the first Monday of September since 1894, and New Zealand, Australia, and Japan use other dates.
Lad culture
Lad culture, or laddism, is a hegemonic student masculinity in UK universities linked to binge drinking, sexist banter, sport, and harassment, studied since the 1990s and addressed by the 2016 UUK Changing the Culture report.
Ladies of Llangollen
Ladies of Llangollen: Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, Anglo-Irish women who eloped in 1778 and lived together nearly fifty years at Plas Newydd, Wales, as a celebrated same-sex couple.
Lady
Lady: English word for a woman, from Old English hlæfdige (loaf-kneader), female counterpart of lord; a British peerage title and, in modern usage, a polite or contested alternative to woman.
Lady Amanda Ellingworth
Lady Amanda Ellingworth, British voluntary-sector executive and former social worker; chaired Plan International UK (from 2016) and The Guinness Partnership; GOSH non-executive director 2018-2024.
Lady Sarah McCorquodale
Lady Sarah McCorquodale (Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia McCorquodale, born 1955) is the eldest sister of Diana, Princess of Wales, co-executor of her will, former Memorial Fund president, and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 2009.
Lana Tisdel
Lana Tisdel, Falls City, Nebraska woman, girlfriend of Brandon Teena; dated him December 1993, testified at John Lotter's murder trial, and settled a lawsuit over her portrayal in Boys Don't Cry.
Landless Workers' Movement
The Landless Workers' Movement (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, MST), founded in Brazil in 1984, occupies idle farmland, camps, and settles families under the 1988 Constitution's social-function doctrine, with 350,000+ families settled.
Larry Fortensky
Larry Fortensky, American construction worker and Teamsters member, was Elizabeth Taylor's seventh and final husband; they met at the Betty Ford Center in 1988, married at Neverland Ranch in 1991, divorced in 1996, and he died in July 2016.
LaSheena Weekly
LaSheena Weekly is a Chicago activist, mother of slain drill rapper FBG Duck (Carlton Weekly), administrator of his estate, and plaintiff in wrongful-death litigation against Lil Durk, OTF, and King Von's estate.
Latchkey kid
Latchkey kid, also latchkey child, is a school-age child home alone after school because parents work. Term recorded from 1944-45 wartime usage; label for Generation X; research finds few consistent harms.
Lateral coital position
Lateral coital position: a side-lying, face-to-face intercourse posture formalized by Masters and Johnson as the final phase of orgasmic-dysfunction therapy; also called the side-by-side position and favored in pain-related position guidance.
Latine
Latine (lah-TEE-nay) is a gender-neutral alternative to Latino and Latina, formed with the Spanish -e suffix, first recorded in 2017, used in U.S. academia and Latin America, and known to only 18% of U.S. Hispanics, unlike Latinx.