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Sustainable Development Goal 5
Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG 5) is a United Nations goal, adopted in 2015, to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls by 2030.
Swaffelen
Swaffelen (zwaffelen) is a Dutch slang verb meaning to swing the penis and tap it against an object. It gained international fame after a 2008 Taj Mahal incident.
Swati Maliwal (स्वाति मालीवाल)
Swati Maliwal (स्वाति मालीवाल), Indian activist and Rajya Sabha MP from Delhi since January 2024; former Delhi Commission for Women chairperson (2015-2024), known for anti-rape hunger strikes, the 2024 Bibhav Kumar assault case, and later defection from AAP to the BJP.
Swinging (sexual practice)
Swinging (wife-swapping, the lifestyle): a form of consensual non-monogamy where committed couples have sex with others, usually at organized events, without romantic bonds; distinct from polyamory and open relationships; documented from 1950s America, with 1982-2016 US demographic and sexual-health data.
Swipe interface
The swipe interface is a mobile interaction pattern introduced by Tinder: users drag profile cards right to like or left to reject, and a match opens chat only when both accept.
Sylvia Rivera
Sylvia Rae Rivera (1951–2002) was an American gay liberation and transgender rights activist who said she took part in the 1969 Stonewall uprising and co-founded STAR to shelter homeless queer youth.
T. Cullen Davis
T. Cullen Davis (Thomas Cullen Davis, born 1933) is a Fort Worth oilman, son of "Stinky" Davis, tried and acquitted in the 1976 Mockingbird Lane mansion murders of Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr and in murder-for-hire trials; never convicted.
Tad Lincoln
Thomas "Tad" Lincoln (1853–1871), youngest son of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, was the mischievous White House child who survived the 1862 typhoid fever that killed Willie, and died at 18 in Chicago, probably of pneumonia.
Tang ping (躺平)
Tang ping (躺平, lying flat) is a Chinese low-desire lifestyle and social discourse started by a 2021 viral post, rejecting overwork, competition, marriage, and consumption; related to neijuan involution and criticized by Chinese official media.
Tarana Burke
Tarana Burke (born 1973, Bronx, New York) is the American civil rights activist who founded the 'me too' movement in 2006 in Selma, Alabama; her phrase became the viral #MeToo hashtag in October 2017 after Alyssa Milano's tweet.
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman
Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, Australian-American activist, founded SumOfUs (now Ekō) in 2011, led New Media Ventures 2020-2022, co-founded Golden Gate Institute for AI, and was Aaron Swartz's fiancée.
Tawana Brawley rape hoax
The Tawana Brawley rape hoax: a 1987 fabricated claim by a New York teenager of abduction and rape by six white men; a 1988 grand jury found no evidence, and 1998 defamation verdicts ordered her advisers to pay Steven Pagones $345,000.
Taya Kyle
Taya Kyle, also known through TACK-F and her memoir American Wife, is the widow of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle of American Sniper, a New York Times bestselling author, and founder of the Taya and Chris Kyle Foundation serving military and first-responder marriages.
Taylor Swift deepfake pornography controversy
January 2024 incident in which AI-generated explicit images of Taylor Swift (deepfakes) went viral on X, traced to 4chan and Telegram, prompting search blocks, White House condemnation, and the later TAKE IT DOWN Act.
Teabagging
Teabagging: slang for the sex act of lowering the scrotum into a partner's mouth, and for the video game taunt of crouching over a defeated opponent's corpse; popularized by the 1998 film Pecker and adopted by Halo players around 2001.
Team Trees
Team Trees (#TeamTrees) is a 2019 reforestation fundraising campaign by YouTubers MrBeast and Mark Rober; $1 plants one tree via the Arbor Day Foundation, with over 25 million trees verified planted across six continents.
Teji Bachchan (तेजी बच्चन)
Teji Bachchan (तेजी बच्चन), born Teji Suri (1914–2007), was an Indian psychology lecturer, stage actor, and social activist, wife of poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan, mother of Amitabh Bachchan, and close friend of Indira Gandhi.
Telugu wedding ceremony
Telugu wedding ceremony: the traditional Hindu marriage ritual of Telugu people of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, also called pelli or kalyanam, defined by Jeelakarra Bellam, Mangalasutram, Talambralu, and Saptapadi at a late-night muhurtham.
Ten stages of genocide
Ten Stages of Genocide: Gregory Stanton's model for Genocide Watch describing genocide as ten predictable, non-linear processes, from classification and dehumanization to extermination and denial, with prevention at every stage.
TERF (acronym)
TERF, trans-exclusionary radical feminist, is an acronym coined in 2008 by blogger Viv Smythe as a neutral label, now widely considered offensive, for feminists who exclude trans women; also a telomere protein and military terrain flight.
Terminology of homosexuality
Terminology of homosexuality covers the words for same-sex orientation: homosexual (coined 1869), gay, lesbian, queer, MSM, and LGBT acronyms, and why APA, CDC, and major style guides now prefer identity terms over the clinical label.
Thananon Charnvirakul
Thananon Charnvirakul, nicknamed Ja, is the wife of Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul; she joins state visits to Vietnam, Malaysia, China, and Australia and hosts spousal cultural diplomacy.
The Cut (publication)
The Cut (thecut.com) is New York magazine's women-focused digital vertical, founded 2008 as a fashion blog and expanded in 2012; sections style, self, culture, power; under Vox Media, then Lupa Systems from 2026.
The Ethical Slut
The Ethical Slut, also known as the "Poly Bible," is a self-help book by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy that presents non-monogamy as a valid choice.
The Female Eunuch
The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer's 1970 feminist polemic (MacGibbon & Kee; McGraw-Hill 1971), argues patriarchal femininity renders women eunuchs; instant bestseller, second-wave classic, banned in Rhodesia, sequel The Whole Woman 1999.
The Feminine Mystique
The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan's 1963 Norton book naming 'the problem that has no name,' critiqued postwar American housewifery and is widely credited with igniting second-wave US feminism, amid lasting criticisms of its white middle-class focus.
The Five Love Languages
The Five Love Languages is Gary Chapman's 1992 relationship framework naming five ways of expressing love (words of affirmation, quality time, gifts, acts of service, physical touch) with a claimed primary language; recent studies find limited empirical support.
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists is Neil Strauss's 2005 nonfiction memoir, written under the pseudonym Style, about two years inside the seduction community with Mystery; a 3-million-copy bestseller that popularized pickup artistry.
The Giving Pledge
The Giving Pledge, founded 2010 by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett, is a nonbinding promise by 250+ billionaires from 30 countries to give at least half their wealth to charity in life or wills.
The History of Sexuality
The History of Sexuality (Histoire de la sexualité) is Michel Foucault's four-volume genealogy of Western sexuality: The Will to Knowledge (1976), The Use of Pleasure and The Care of the Self (1984), and the posthumous Confessions of the Flesh (2018), attacking the repressive hypothesis.