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Alice Marsh
Alice Marsh, born Alice Glass Kirkpatrick, was an American socialite and political hostess in Washington, D.C., described in Lyndon B. Johnson biographies as his long-time mistress.
Alicia Garza
Alicia Garza (born 1981, Oakland) is an American civil rights organizer who co-founded Black Lives Matter after her July 2013 Facebook post following Zimmerman's acquittal; she later founded Black Futures Lab and co-founded Supermajority.
Alicia Roth Weigel
Alicia Roth Weigel, intersex activist, author of the 2023 memoir Inverse Cowgirl, Austin Texas Human Rights Commissioner, and subject of the documentary Every Body, advocates against non-consensual intersex surgeries.
All Lives Matter
All Lives Matter (ALM) is a 2014 social media slogan that emerged as a reactionary response to Black Lives Matter. It affirms attention to all lives.
Alliance Defending Freedom
Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), formerly Alliance Defense Fund, is a US conservative Christian legal advocacy group founded in 1994, active in religious liberty, abortion, and LGBTQ litigation, with over $100 million annual revenue and an SPLC hate-group designation it disputes.
Almost Naked party
The Almost Naked party was a December 20, 2023 celebrity event organized by Anastasia Ivleeva at Moscow's Mutabor club with an "almost naked" dress code, whose photos sparked a pro-war conservative crackdown, jail terms, fines, apologies, and a rejected billion-ruble lawsuit.
Alok Dixit
Alok Dixit, Indian activist and former journalist, founded the Stop Acid Attacks campaign (2013) and Chhanv Foundation (2014), Noida-based, and opened the Sheroes Hangout survivor cafés in Agra and Lucknow.
Alon-Lee Green (אלון-לי גרין)
Alon-Lee Green (אלון-לי גרין), Israeli activist, co-founder and national co-director of the Jewish-Arab movement Standing Together; 2011 social protest leader, former Knesset adviser, TIME100 Next 2024 honoree.
Alpha and beta male
Alpha and beta male labels from animal dominance-hierarchy research, coined by Rudolf Schenkel in 1947 and popularized by David Mech's 1970 wolf book, later retracted; applied to human personality by the manosphere.
Alpha Xi Delta
Alpha Xi Delta (ΑΞΔ) is a women's sorority founded April 17, 1893, at Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois, by ten women; an NPC member since 1904 with over 175,000 initiates, Quill badge, and Kindly Hearts philanthropy.
Alpine divorce
Alpine divorce is an informal term for abandoning a partner on a hike or mountain trip, from Robert Barr's 1893 story "An Alpine Divorce"; it went viral in 2026 after the Grossglockner manslaughter conviction of Thomas Plamberger.
Alter-globalization
Alter-globalization, also called alternative globalization or alter-mundialization, is a transnational social movement favoring global cooperation while opposing neoliberal globalization's harms; its central expression is the World Social Forum under the slogan "another world is possible".
Alternative media
Alternative media: nonmainstream media forms, also called citizen, radical, or movement media, that are smaller-scale, participatory, and often oppositional; studied through protest coverage, trust effects, and misinformation risk.
Alveda King
Alveda King (born 1951), American evangelist and anti-abortion activist, niece of Martin Luther King Jr.; twice elected Georgia state representative, Priests for Life outreach director, Fox News contributor, AFPI American Dream chair.
Amalija Knavs
Amalija Knavs (born Amalija Ulčnik, 1945–2024), Slovenian textile pattern maker at the Jutranjka factory in Sevnica, mother of former first lady Melania Trump and of Ines; immigrated to the U.S. on family sponsorship, naturalized 2018.
Amanda Nguyen
Amanda Nguyen (born 1991), Vietnamese-American activist and bioastronautics scientist, founded Rise, championed the 2016 Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act, and became the first Vietnamese woman in space on Blue Origin's NS-31 flight, April 14, 2025.
American College of Pediatricians
American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), not to be confused with the American Academy of Pediatrics: a small socially conservative U.S. pediatric group founded in 2002, Atlanta-based, 501(c)(3), anti-LGBTQ positions, SPLC-designated hate group.
American Family Association
American Family Association (AFA), formerly National Federation for Decency, is a Tupelo, Mississippi-based conservative Christian 501(c)(3) founded in 1977 by Donald Wildmon, known for TV decency campaigns, American Family Radio, One Million Moms, corporate boycotts, and its SPLC hate-group designation.
Amoris laetitia
Amoris laetitia (The Joy of Love), Pope Francis's 2016 post-synodal apostolic exhortation on love in the family, 325 paragraphs over nine chapters; its treatment of divorced and remarried Catholics' access to Communion sparked lasting controversy.
Amrita Devi
Amrita Devi (Imarta Devi), Bishnoi woman of Khejarli village near Jodhpur, killed in September 1730 defending khejri trees from Maharaja Abhay Singh's soldiers; her death began the Khejarli massacre of 363 Bishnois and inspired India's wildlife awards and Chipko.
Amy Mek
Amy Mek is the online pseudonym of Amy Mekelburg, an American far-right commentator and anti-Islam activist from New York who founded RAIR Foundation USA and was identified by journalists in 2018.
An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code
Bill C-16 (42-1), the 2016 Canadian statute adding gender identity or expression to the Canadian Human Rights Act and Criminal Code hate propaganda and sentencing provisions; Royal Assent 19 June 2017, S.C. 2017 c. 13.
An-Nisa, 34
An-Nisa 34 (Quran 4:34), the contested verse on qawwamah, nushuz, and daraba: classical tafsir read it as permitting a husband to strike a rebellious wife, while modern exegetes and feminist scholars reinterpret its key terms.
Anal masturbation
Anal masturbation: self-stimulation of the anus and rectum with fingers or anal toys (butt plugs, beads, prostate massagers). Key points: needs lubricant, flared-based toys, cleaning; negligible HIV risk per CDC.
Anal sex
Anal sex is sexual activity involving the anus, also called anal intercourse, practiced across orientations. Covers anatomy, injury and STI risks, condoms, PrEP, doxyPEP, prevalence, stigma, and historical attitudes from antiquity onward.
Anand Karaj (ਅਨੰਦ ਕਾਰਜ)
Anand Karaj (ਅਨੰਦ ਕਾਰਜ), the Sikh marriage ceremony of "blissful union," centers on four Laavan hymns by Guru Ram Das and circling the Guru Granth Sahib; legally validated in India by the Anand Marriage Act, 1909, amended 2012.
Anarcha-feminism
Anarcha-feminism, or anarcho-feminism, unites anarchism with feminism, treating patriarchy as a hierarchy to abolish. Key expressions include Mujeres Libres (Spain, 1936), Emma Goldman, and 1970s US groups like Black Rose.
Ancestor
Ancestor: a deceased forebear, real or mythical, from whom persons or groups descend. In law, a person whose estate passes by descent; in anthropology, the focal figure of ancestor veneration, studied since Edward Tylor's 1870 comparative religion work.
Anchor baby
Anchor baby: pejorative US political term for a child born to non-citizen parents, implying planned birth for citizenship; also niño ancla, bebê âncora. No legal meaning; citizen children sponsor parents only at 21.
And the Band Played On
And the Band Played On, Randy Shilts's 1987 investigative history of the early American AIDS epidemic, its institutional failures, the disputed Patient Zero narrative, and the 1993 HBO film adaptation.