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Penguin Revolution
The Penguin Revolution, or Revolución Pingüina, was the 2006 wave of protests by Chilean secondary school students that put education reform at the center of Chilean politics.
People-first language
People-first language (person-first language) places the person before the disability, e.g. "person with epilepsy"; contrasted with identity-first language ("disabled person"), it is used by the CRPD and CDC, though surveys show mixed preferences among disabled people.
Pepe Julian Onziema
Pepe Julian Onziema (born 1980) is a Ugandan transgender human rights activist, Programs Director of Sexual Minorities Uganda, and the activist from the viral 2012 "Why are you gay?" NBS interview.
Pepper LaBeija
Pepper LaBeija, born William Jackson, died 2003, was Mother of the House of LaBeija, the first ballroom house, for about 30 years and a featured figure of the documentary Paris Is Burning (1990).
Pepper Schwartz
Pepper Schwartz (born 1945) is an American sociologist and sexologist, University of Washington professor emerita, author of American Couples and Peer Marriage, AARP love expert, and Married at First Sight panelist.
Perpetual foreigner
The perpetual foreigner (forever foreigner) stereotype casts Asian Americans as inherently foreign regardless of citizenship or generations in the U.S.; a component of Kim's 1999 racial triangulation, distinct from the model minority stereotype.
Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany
The persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany was the regime's 1935 to 1945 campaign against men under Paragraph 175; about 100,000 were arrested and 5,000 to 15,000 sent to concentration camps.
Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar
Persecution of Muslims in Myanmar targets the Rohingya and other Muslim minorities, about 4 percent of the population, through the 1982 Citizenship Law, 2017 genocide-designated clearance operations, and post-2021 coup abuses by the military and Arakan Army.
Persecution of transgender people under the second Trump administration
Persecution of transgender people under the second Trump administration: federal executive orders (EO 14168, 14187, 14183, 14201) from January 2025 restricting gender-affirming care, military service, passports, and recognition, plus litigation including Skrmetti, PFLAG v. Trump, and Orr v. Trump.
Personal advertisement
Personal advertisement (lonely-hearts ad): a classified notice seeking a romantic or marriage partner, first printed in a 1692 British newspaper, common in The Times by 1785-1800, later in matrimonial periodicals, and the direct ancestor of online dating profiles.
Personal relationships of Elvis Presley
Personal relationships of Elvis Presley: parents Vernon and Gladys, wife Priscilla Beaulieu (married 1967, divorced 1973), daughter Lisa Marie, partners Anita Wood, Linda Thompson, Ginger Alden, and the Memphis Mafia inner circle.
Personal relationships of Michael Jackson
Personal relationships of Michael Jackson: his Gary, Indiana family, marriages to Lisa Marie Presley (1994-1996) and Debbie Rowe (1996-1999/2000), his three children, custody, and public scrutiny.
Personal relationships of Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney's personal relationships: engagement to Jane Asher (1963–1968), marriage to Linda Eastman (1969–1998), Heather Mills (2002–2008), and Nancy Shevell (2011–present), plus the songs each inspired.
Peruvian Indigenism
Peruvian Indigenism, or indigenismo peruano, was an intellectual and artistic movement of the early twentieth century, centered in Cuzco, that vindicated Peru's indigenous population and reimagined the nation around Andean heritage.
Peruvian migration to Chile
Peruvian migration to Chile is the movement of people from Peru to Chile, historically in the north and since the 1990s centered on Santiago, reaching about 260,785 residents by 2023.
Peruvian peasant movement
The Peruvian peasant movement (movimiento campesino peruano) is the organized action of Peru's campesinos for land, labor conditions, and union rights, organized through unions and the 1947 Confederación Campesina del Perú.
Perversion
Perversion: former psychiatric and sexological term for pathological, non-procreative sexuality, rooted in medieval perversity, systematized by Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), replaced by paraphilia in DSM-III (1980).
Pet cemetery
Pet cemetery: burial ground for companion animals. First known urban example in London's Hyde Park (1881); oldest operating is Hartsdale, New York (1896). Covers history, regulation, and costs.
Peter Brimelow
Peter Brimelow (born 1947), British-American financial journalist, author of Alien Nation (1995), and founder of VDARE.com, a leading anti-immigration and white nationalist-adjacent website suspended in 2024.
Peter Tatchell
Peter Tatchell (born 1952, Melbourne) is a British human rights campaigner active since 1967, known for the Gay Liberation Front, OutRage!, the 1983 Bermondsey by-election, Mugabe citizen's arrests, and the Peter Tatchell Foundation.
Phallus
Phallus: the erect penis as cultural symbol, distinct from the anatomical penis. Sacred imagery attested some 30,000 years back; Greek fertility deities, Roman apotropaic amulets, the Vindolanda wooden phallus, and psychoanalytic theory.
Philanthropy and advocacy of Dolly Parton
Dolly Parton's philanthropy, run through The Dollywood Foundation (1988), includes the Imagination Library book-gifting program (1995), the My People Fund wildfire relief, Vanderbilt COVID-19 vaccine research funding, and scholarships.
Philippine kinship
Philippine kinship, the bilateral (cognatic) family reckoning system of the Philippines, also called Malayan-type kinship. Descent traced equally through both parents; generation-based, weakly sex-differentiated terminology; compadrazgo godparenthood; regional variation including segmentary lineal-like organization in the Islamic south.
Philomena Lee
Philomena Lee, Irish woman separated from her son Anthony at Sean Ross Abbey, Roscrea, in the 1950s; subject of Martin Sixsmith's 2009 book and the 2013 Oscar-nominated film Philomena; advocate for adoption-record access and Philomena's Law.
Phoebe Plummer
Phoebe Plummer, British Just Stop Oil activist who threw soup on Van Gogh's Sunflowers in 2022, jailed two years in 2024, later given suspended M25 conspiracy sentence.
Phone sex
Phone sex: erotic conversation by telephone, intimate or commercial, including voice, video, and text forms. Covers 1980s dial-a-porn origins, 900-number billing, per-minute rates, operators, and recording law.
Physical abuse
Physical abuse: intentional use of physical force causing injury, a form of child maltreatment alongside sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect; global pooled prevalence 22.6%, distinct from corporal punishment by definition but overlapping in practice.
Physical intimacy
Physical intimacy is bodily closeness between people, spanning sexual contact and non-sexual touch such as hugging and hand-holding. Distinguishing facts: it calms stress via cortisol and oxytocin pathways, follows bond-strength touch maps across cultures, and is governed by cultural, gendered, historical, and legal norms.
Picketing
Picketing, also called a picket line, is stationing protesters outside a workplace to publicize a labor dispute and discourage workers or customers from entering. Covers primary versus secondary picketing, US and UK legality, and the 2026 ICJ right-to-strike opinion.
Pickup artist
Pickup artists (PUAs) are self-styled seduction experts in a commercial online community selling techniques like negging and kino; tied to the manosphere, popularized by Mystery and Neil Strauss's 2005 The Game, and criticized as manipulative and misogynistic.