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Nancy Spungen
Nancy Spungen (1958-1978), Philadelphia-born punk scene figure and girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious, was stabbed to death in room 100 of New York's Chelsea Hotel on 12 October 1978; Vicious was charged but the case remains unsolved.
Nanjing Sister Hong incident
Nanjing Sister Hong incident: July 2025 Chinese scandal in which a 38-year-old Nanjing man surnamed Jiao, posing online as 'Sister Hong' (红姐), allegedly secretly filmed sex with up to 1,691 men and sold the videos, distinct from unrelated Hong Kong cases.
Nanny
Nanny: a childcare worker employed by a family to care for children in the child's own home, live-in or live-out. Also nursery nurse; distinct from au pair (cultural exchange, 45-hour cap) and daycare. History from wet nursing; Ofsted registration in England; US weekly cost $694 (2021).
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein (born 1970, Montreal) is a Canadian author and UBC Professor of Climate Justice known for No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything, Doppelganger, and the Leap Manifesto.
Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf, American feminist author, wrote The Beauty Myth (1991), a bestseller central to third-wave feminism; later books include The End of America and Outrages, which was recalled over factual errors.
Narendra Dabholkar
Narendra Dabholkar (1945-2013), Indian medical doctor, rationalist, and founder-president of Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS/ANiS), who drafted the Maharashtra anti-superstition bill and was shot dead in Pune on 20 August 2013, days before the ordinance passed.
Natálie Puškinová
Natálie Puškinová (born 2004) is a Czech model who won Miss Earth 2025 in Manila, the second Czech titleholder after Tereza Fajksová (2012), studying at Charles University and advocating food waste reduction.
Nathan Phelps
Nathan Phelps, known as Nate Phelps, is a Canadian-based American writer, LGBTQ and atheist activist, and an estranged son of Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps.
National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS), founded in New York in November 1911 under Josephine Dodge, was the national American anti-suffrage organization, publisher of Woman's Protest, with branches in 25 states by 1916, opposing the Nineteenth Amendment until 1920.
National Coming Out Day
National Coming Out Day, October 11, founded 1988 by Jean O'Leary and Robert Eichberg after the 1987 March on Washington; now organized by HRC, observed in the US and Canada, celebrating coming out and living openly.
National Commission for Women (राष्ट्रीय महिला आयोग)
The National Commission for Women (राष्ट्रीय महिला आयोग) is a statutory body of the Government of India set up in 1992 to safeguard women's rights.
National Debt Repayment Movement
The National Debt Repayment Movement (국채보상운동) was a 1907 Korean campaign to repay the empire's debt to Japan, begun in Daegu and joined by about 25 percent of the population.
National Organization for Marriage
National Organization for Marriage (NOM), founded 2007, a 501(c)(4) group opposing same-sex marriage, led by Brian S. Brown, with a 501(c)(3) Education Fund and disclosure litigation history.
National Organization for Women
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist advocacy organization founded on June 30, 1966, in Washington, D.C. by Betty Friedan and 48 others.
Natural hair movement
The natural hair movement is a cultural movement, mainly among Black women, embracing natural afro-textured hair, with waves in the 1960s to 1970s and from the late 2000s.
Navel fetishism
Navel fetishism (alvinophilia, alvinolagnia) is sexual attraction to the navel, a form of abdominal partialism; about 3% of body-part fetish preferences in a large survey, a paraphilia rather than a disorder absent distress.
Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India
Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India (2018): Supreme Court of India five-judge bench decision that read down Section 377 IPC, decriminalizing consensual same-sex relations among adults and overruling Suresh Koushal (2013).
Nawal El Saadawi (نوال السعداوي)
Nawal El Saadawi (نوال السعداوي), 1931–2021, Egyptian physician, psychiatrist, novelist, and feminist; author of Women and Sex and Woman at Point Zero; jailed under Sadat in 1981, exiled under death threats, wrote over 50 works.
Necrophilia
Necrophilia: sexual attraction to or abuse of corpses; a rare paraphilia classified as an other specified paraphilic disorder in DSM-5, with Rosman and Resnick's 122-case typology and varied laws across jurisdictions.
Negging
Negging is a backhanded compliment or subtle insult used to undermine someone's confidence and make them seek approval. Originating in pickup artistry via Mystery and Neil Strauss's The Game, it differs from teasing and gaslighting.
Neha Bora
Neha Bora is an Indian student activist who leads the All India Students' Association and led a 2026 hunger strike.
Neil Horan
Neil Horan, also known as Cornelius Horan, is an Irish former priest known for disrupting the 2003 British Grand Prix and the 2004 Olympic marathon.
Neo-Confederates
Neo-Confederates are US adherents of Confederate ideology, also called neo-Confederacy, centered on the League of the South and Identity Dixie, Lost Cause myths, Confederate symbols, and white supremacist beliefs, classified by the SPLC as hate groups.
Nephi Jeffs
Nephi Jeffs, brother of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, served as his personal assistant and message conduit from prison, described as second-in-command of the FLDS; registered agent of two FLDS corporations and witness in the 2014 pecan harvest labor case.
Neuroqueer theory
Neuroqueer theory: a critical framework joining queer theory and neurodiversity, coined publicly around 2014 by Walker, Yergeau, Michaels-Dillon, and Grace, treating queerness and neurodivergence as inseparable and critiquing neuronormativity.
Nevada-Semipalatinsk
Nevada-Semipalatinsk was an anti-nuclear movement founded in Kazakhstan in February 1989 by the Kazakh poet Olzhas Suleimenov, whose campaign closed the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site in 1991.
Nevertheless, she persisted
"Nevertheless, she persisted" is a feminist slogan from Mitch McConnell's February 2017 Senate rebuke of Elizabeth Warren during the Jeff Sessions confirmation debate; it became a viral rallying cry, merchandise phenomenon, and 2018 Women's History Month theme.
New antisemitism
New antisemitism: concept for post-1945 anti-Jewish hostility expressed through demonization of Israel as a Jewish collectivity; also called Israel-related antisemitism; central to IHRA, JDA, and Nexus definition debates.
New Black Panther Party
The New Black Panther Party is an American Black militant organization founded in Dallas in the early 1990s and designated a hate group by the SPLC.
New Unionism
New Unionism (novo sindicalismo) was a Brazilian labor movement of the late 1970s, centered on metalworkers' strikes in the ABC Paulista region against the military regime's wage policy.