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Straight flag
Straight flag: umbrella term for flags representing heterosexuality, chiefly the straight ally flag (black-and-white stripes with a rainbow "A" for ally) and the straight pride flag, a conservative counter-symbol to LGBTQIA+ pride; GLAAD lists the orange-black "super straight" variant as an online hate symbol.
Straight pride
Straight pride is a slogan and event format celebrating heterosexuality as a counterpart to LGBTQ Pride; documented instances include Boston's 2019 Super Happy Fun America parade, Greece's 2018 Anakatalipsi march, and Putin's 'straight pride' flag, typically linked to far-right organizing.
Straight women's preference for lesbian pornography
Straight women's preference for lesbian pornography: Pornhub data show women favor the Lesbian category; Avgar's 2025 Sexualities study names five reasons (pleasure focus, relatability, less degradation, authenticity, fantasy), while arousal research shows women lack category-specific genital response.
Streaking
Streaking is running naked through a public place as a prank or stunt, a 1974 American college fad of over 1,000 recorded incidents, celebrated by Ray Stevens' "The Streak," studied as collective behavior, and now largely extinct at televised sporting events.
Street children
Street children, also called street-connected children or children in street situations, are under-18s who depend on streets to live or work. Global numbers are unknown; the 100 million figure dates from 1989, and recent models suggest 10 to 15 million under strict definitions.
Structural violence
Structural violence, coined by Johan Galtung (1969), is harm embedded in social structures producing unequal power and life chances; spans peace studies, public health, and clinical medicine.
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, "SNICK"), US civil rights organization founded April 1960 at Shaw University, Raleigh, by Ella Baker's sit-in leadership meeting; ran Freedom Rides, Mississippi Freedom Summer, Selma; turned to Black Power under Carmichael in 1966.
Subversion
Subversion is the covert, indirect effort to destroy or weaken an established system or government from within; from Latin subvertere, to overturn. Distinct from sabotage, espionage, and Apache Subversion, the version control software.
Sue Pritzker
Sue (Susan S.) Pritzker, born Susan Stowell in 1948, is an American philanthropist, wife of Nicholas Pritzker, and co-president of the Libra Foundation, a social justice funder founded in 2002 with about $428 million in assets.
Suicide of Amanda Todd
The suicide of Amanda Todd (October 10, 2012), a 15-year-old from Port Coquitlam, BC, followed webcam sextortion and blackmail; Dutch extortionist Aydin Coban was convicted in Canada in 2022, sentenced to 13 years, later converted to six Dutch years.
Suicide of Atul Subhash
Atul Subhash, 34, a Bengaluru techie also called Subhash Atul, died by suicide on December 9, 2024, leaving a 24-page note and video accusing wife Nikita Singhania of harassment, false cases, and a Rs 3 crore extortion demand; an abetment FIR followed.
Suicide of Jacintha Saldanha
Jacintha Saldanha, an Indian-born nurse at London's King Edward VII Hospital, died by suicide in December 2012 after transferring a 2Day FM royal prank call from DJs Mel Greig and Michael Christian about the Duchess of Cambridge; the 2014 inquest ruled suicide and Australian regulation followed.
Suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer
Suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer, also described as the death of Jamey Rodemeyer: the September 18, 2011 suicide of a 14-year-old Williamsville, New York freshman after anti-gay bullying, which prompted a criminal investigation, school suspensions, Lady Gaga's response, and his parents' anti-bullying advocacy.
Suicide of Megan Meier
Suicide of Megan Meier: October 2006 death of 13-year-old Megan Taylor Meier of O'Fallon, Missouri, after a MySpace hoax by neighbor Lori Drew posing as boy 'Josh Evans'; led to a failed CFAA prosecution and cyberbullying laws.
Suicide of Phoebe Prince
The suicide of Phoebe Prince was the January 2010 death of a 15-year-old Irish immigrant in South Hadley, Massachusetts, after months of bullying; nine classmates were charged.
Suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons
Rehtaeh Parsons, Nova Scotia teenager who died by suicide April 7, 2013 at 17 after an alleged 2011 sexual assault photo circulated; prompted Segal and Pepler reviews, Cyber-safety Act, later struck down.
Suicide of Renata Kambolina
Renata Kambolina (Rina Palenkova, Рената Камболина), Russian student from Ussuriysk who died by suicide on 23 November 2015 aged 16; her 'nya.bye' final VKontakte post became the origin myth of the Blue Whale challenge panic.
Suicide of Tyler Clementi
Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old Rutgers freshman violinist also known as a victim of webcam spying by roommate Dharun Ravi, died by suicide September 22, 2010; the case spurred the Tyler Clementi Foundation, Rutgers' Tyler Clementi Center, and the federal Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act.
Summer of Love
The Summer of Love was a 1967 gathering drawing some 100,000 young people to San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, featuring the Monterey International Pop Festival and Scott McKenzie's anthem.
Sun Myung Moon (문선명)
Sun Myung Moon (문선명, 1920–2012), Korean founder of the Unification Church (Holy Spirit Association, 1954), messianic claimant, mass-wedding officiant, Washington Times founder, and builder of a global business empire; died 2012, succeeded by his children.
Sunderlal Bahuguna (सुंदरलाल बहुगुणा)
Sunderlal Bahuguna (सुंदरलाल बहुगुणा, 1927–2021), Gandhian environmentalist of Uttarakhand, Chipko movement leader and anti-Tehri Dam campaigner; slogan "Ecology is permanent economy," 4,870 km Himalayan march, 15-year logging moratorium, Padma Vibhushan.
Supremacism
Supremacism is the ideology that one group of people is superior and entitled to rule or dominate others, whether by race, religion, gender, or culture.
Survivalism
Survivalism, also called prepping, is the practice of preparing for societal collapse or catastrophe through stockpiling food, skills, and retreats. Coined by Kurt Saxon in 1975/6, it is strongest in the United States and spans far-right, secular, and left-wing variants.
Susan Alice Buffett
Susan Alice Buffett (born 1953, Omaha) is Warren Buffett's eldest child, chair of the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation and Sherwood Foundation, founder of the Buffett Early Childhood Fund, and a Berkshire Hathaway director.
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906), American Quaker-born reformer and organizer for woman suffrage; NWSA co-founder, 1872 voting-arrest defendant, coeditor of History of Woman Suffrage; the Nineteenth Amendment was long called the Anthony Amendment.
Susan Berman
Susan Berman was an American journalist and author, best known for her memoir Easy Street and being murdered in 2000, for which Robert Durst was convicted in 2021.
Susan Buffett
Susan Thompson Buffett (1932-2004), first wife of Warren Buffett, philanthropist, Berkshire Hathaway director, and president of the Buffett Foundation, renamed the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation after her death in Cody, Wyoming.
Susan Carland
Susan Carland (Susan Janet Carland), Australian sociologist of religion at Monash University, author of Fighting Hislam (2016), converted to Islam at 19, studies Muslim women, feminism, and Islamophobia, and is married to Waleed Aly.
Suspension bondage
Suspension bondage, central to shibari (縛り) and kinbaku (緊縛), lifts a bound person partially or fully off the ground on rope from an overhead anchor; distinguished from floor bondage by radial nerve compression risk, suspension trauma syndrome, and rated rigging requirements.
Sustainability
Sustainability means meeting present needs without compromising future generations, per the 1987 Brundtland definition. Covers its three dimensions, weak vs strong sustainability metrics, the SDGs, planetary boundaries, and greenwashing in sustainable finance.