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Sonia Sutcliffe
Sonia Sutcliffe, nee Sonia Szurma, English school teacher, married Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe in 1974; won 1989 Private Eye libel case, lost 1990 News of the World case, divorced 1994, remarried Michael Woodward 1997.
Sophie Flay
Sophie Flay (born 1996) is an American broadcast journalist, daughter of chef Bobby Flay, co-anchoring ABC's World News Now and GMA First Look since 2025 after ABC7 Los Angeles reporting and Food Network shows The Flay List and Bobby and Sophie on the Coast.
Source (journalism)
Source (journalism): the person, document, or origin supplying facts for a news story, also called 新闻来源. Covers attribution levels, anonymous-source rules, verification, and ethics codes from AP, Washington Post, and SPJ.
Southern chivalry
Southern chivalry: the antebellum South's elite white male honor code of duels, reputation, and Cavalier medievalism, tied to slavery; also the name of a Southern California political faction and a lasting Lost Cause image.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), founded in Atlanta in 1957 and led by Martin Luther King Jr. until 1968, coordinated nonviolent civil rights campaigns including Birmingham and Selma, spurring the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Sovereign citizen movement
Sovereign citizen movement: anti-government extremists, also called freemen on the land, claiming immunity from US law via strawman and redemption theories and UCC filings; courts uniformly reject these pseudolegal arguments as frivolous.
Soy boy
Soy boy (soyboy, soy-boy) is an alt-right internet insult for men seen as effeminate or liberal, based on the disproven claim that soy's phytoestrogens lower male testosterone; it emerged on 4chan in 2017 alongside milk-chugging imagery.
Special needs
Special needs is a euphemism for disability, common in education and speech but rejected by UN guidance, APA and ASHA style guides, and many disabled people; a 530-person study found it reads more negatively than disability.
Speed dating
Speed dating: organized brief one-on-one dating encounters with mutual-yes matching, created in 1998 Los Angeles by Rabbi Yaacov Deyo for Jewish singles, and widely used as a research paradigm for initial romantic attraction.
Sport Relief
Sport Relief is the sporting fundraising campaign of the UK charity Comic Relief (Charity Projects), created in 2002 with BBC Sport and alternating biennially with Red Nose Day; it has raised over £420 million and is relaunching in 2026 with Grey London.
Spouse
A spouse is a person's lawfully married husband or wife, a status created by marriage that confers rights and duties and ends with death, divorce, or annulment.
Springfield pet-eating hoax
The Springfield pet-eating hoax was a false 2024 rumor claiming Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio ate pets; debunked by police and officials but amplified by Vance and Trump, causing bomb threats and fear.
Spur Posse
Spur Posse: a Lakewood, California high school clique (about 20-30 members, founded 1990 by Dana Belman) whose members scored 'points' for sexual encounters, arrested in 1993 on rape charges that prosecutors mostly dropped.
Sri Lankan sporting disappearances
Sri Lankan sporting disappearances: athletes and officials vanishing during international events abroad, most famously the 23-member fake 2004 handball team in Germany and ten missing athletes from the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, usually to escape civil war or economic crisis.
Standpoint theory
Standpoint theory is a family of epistemological positions that emerged in the 1970s. It claims that marginalized perspectives are epistemically advantaged and that research should begin with their lives.
Stanley Armour Dunham
Stanley Armour Dunham (1918–1992), Barack Obama's maternal grandfather, Kansas-born WWII Army sergeant under Patton, furniture salesman, who with wife Madelyn Payne Dunham raised Obama in Honolulu from age ten.
State funeral
State funeral: government-organized public funeral honoring heads of state, former leaders, or eminent citizens, with lying-in-state, processions, and military honours; Canadian entitlement rules, US Capitol traditions, and subnational variants.
Stay-at-home mother
Stay-at-home mother: a mother not employed for pay outside the home, also called homemaker or housewife. In 2012, 29% of U.S. mothers (10.4 million) were at home; 34% lived in poverty.
Steal This Book
Steal This Book is a 1971 guide to living cheaply, protesting, and evading authority by American activist Abbie Hoffman, published by Pirate Editions and distributed by Grove Press.
Stepfamily
Stepfamily: a family formed when one or both partners in a couple bring children from a previous relationship; also called blended family. Covers definitions, US prevalence (42% of adults report close stepfamily ties), dynamics, and child-outcome research.
Stepmother
Stepmother: a woman partnered to a child's biological parent, not the biological mother. Also called father-stepmother families. Key facts: 19% of US children with a stepparent lived with father and stepmother; stepmothers face role ambiguity, more conflict, and give less support than stepfathers.
Stereotypes of African Americans
Stereotypes of African Americans: demeaning beliefs and caricatures (Sambo, Mammy, Jezebel, Black Buck) rooted in slavery and blackface minstrelsy, spread through advertising and film, persisting in news and screen media per Pew and Common Sense Media data.
Stereotypes of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States
Stereotypes of Hispanic and Latino Americans in U.S. media: the six classic Hollywood types (el bandido, harlot, buffoons, Latin lover, dark lady), criminality and immigration tropes in news and TV, and the underrepresentation data behind them.
Stokely Carmichael
Stokely Carmichael, later Kwame Ture (1941–1998), Trinidadian-born American civil rights activist, SNCC chairman from 1966, popularizer of the slogan "Black Power," Lowndes County Freedom Organization organizer, later Pan-Africanist in Guinea.
Stonewall Inn
The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar at 51-53 Christopher Street in Greenwich Village, was the site of the June 28, 1969 police raid and uprising that catalyzed the modern gay rights movement; now a National Historic Landmark within Stonewall National Monument.
Stop Killing Games
Stop Killing Games (Stop Destroying Videogames) is a consumer-rights campaign started by Ross Scott in 2024 to keep purchased video games playable after support ends.
Storge (στοργή)
Storge (στοργή) is the Ancient Greek word for natural, instinctive family affection, from the verb stergo; rare in antiquity, absent as a simple noun from the New Testament, and popularized by C. S. Lewis's The Four Loves.
Stormé DeLarverie
Stormé DeLarverie (1920–2014), New Orleans-born biracial butch lesbian, drag king, and singer, was MC of the Jewel Box Revue (1955–1969) and a Stonewall veteran often, though contestably, credited with throwing the first punch; later a Village bouncer and guardian.
Stormfront (website)
Stormfront.org is a white nationalist discussion forum founded in 1995 by former KKK leader Don Black, the first major hate site on the Internet, with hundreds of thousands of registered users and documented links to extremist violence.
Straight ally
Straight ally: a heterosexual, cisgender supporter of LGBTQ+ people and rights, also called cishet ally. Key aspects: components of perceived allyship (nonprejudice, action, humility), performative allyship critique, ally flag, workplace and school programs.