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Trophy wife
Trophy wife: informal derogatory term for a young attractive wife seen as a status symbol for an older, affluent husband; popularized by a 1989 Fortune cover story; McClintock's ASR research found the beauty-for-status exchange behind the stereotype largely a myth.
Tubal Uriah Butler
Tubal Uriah Butler, known as Buzz Butler, was a Grenadian-born oilfield worker and trade union leader in Trinidad whose arrest attempt on June 19, 1937 triggered the Butler Oilfield Riots.
Tucking
Tucking conceals the penis and testes under clothing by guiding the testes into the inguinal canals and securing the position with gaffs, underwear, or medical tape; used for gender affirmation and performance, with risks including skin irritation, UTIs, and reduced sperm quality.
Tuesday Society
The Tuesday Society (Hwayohoe, 화요회) was a socialist organization formed in Seoul in 1924 under Japanese rule, and a founding faction of the Korean Communist Party.
Tushar Gandhi (तुषार आरुण गांधी)
Tushar Arun Gandhi (तुषार आरुण गांधी), born 1960, is an Indian author and activist, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, founder-president of the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation, author of Let's Kill Gandhi, and a critic of the BJP-RSS.
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family
Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, an English compound surname joining the Twisleton, Wykeham, and Fiennes lines, tied to the barony of Saye and Sele, Broughton Castle, and to explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes and actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes.
Two-spirit
Two-spirit, often abbreviated 2S, is a pan-Indigenous umbrella term for diverse gender identities, sexual orientations, and spiritual roles, coined in 1990 at a gathering near Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Tyler Shultz
Tyler Shultz, Stanford-trained biologist and grandson of George Shultz, was the Theranos research engineer and whistleblower who exposed the $9 billion blood-testing fraud, then co-founded Flux Biosciences and Healthyr.
Types of marriages
Types of marriages: anthropologists classify marriage as monogamy (including serial and same-sex marriage) or polygamy, with polygyny the common form, polyandry rare, and group marriage rare; legal regimes vary across 189 countries.
U-Haul lesbian
U-Haul lesbian: lesbian-culture slang and stereotype for moving in with a new partner almost immediately, from the Lea DeLaria second-date joke, popularized via her 1997 album Box Lunch and 1990s TV.
Ukrainian national revival
The Ukrainian national revival (Українське національне відродження) was an 18th- and 19th-century movement in the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires advocating national-cultural revival and nation formation.
UN Women
UN Women (United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women), a UN agency created 2 July 2010 by merging four gender entities; operational 1 January 2011; first head Michelle Bachelet, current executive director Sima Bahous.
Uncle
Uncle: in English, the brother of a parent and, by extension, the husbands of parent's sisters. The word's coverage across kinship systems (Eskimo, Hawaiian, Iroquois, Sudanese, Crow, Omaha) shows how languages merge or distinguish father's brother, mother's brother, and affinal uncles.
Under the Banner of Heaven
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, Jon Krakauer's 2003 true-crime book on the 1984 Lafferty murders, LDS Church response, 2022 FX/Hulu series.
Underwear fetishism
Underwear fetishism is sexual arousal focused on undergarments, a form of fetishism; it is fetishistic disorder under DSM-5/ICD only when recurrent over 6 months and causing distress or impairment.
Unified Syndical Confederation of Rural Workers of Bolivia
The Unified Syndical Confederation of Rural Workers of Bolivia (Confederación Sindical Única de Trabajadores Campesinos de Bolivia, CSUTCB), founded in 1979, is Bolivia's largest federation of peasant unions.
United States v. Windsor
United States v. Windsor, 570 U.S. 744 (2013): Supreme Court case striking down Section 3 of DOMA under the Fifth Amendment; Edith Windsor's $363,053 estate tax; 5-4 Kennedy opinion.
Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) is a Black nationalist and Pan-African organization founded by Marcus Garvey in Jamaica in 1914, a major movement of people of African descent.
Unrequited love
Unrequited Love (暗恋橘生淮南) is a 2021 Chinese youth campus romance web series directed by Li Muge, starring Hu Yitian and Hu Bingqing, released in 24 episodes.
Untouchability
Untouchability, the social disabilities imposed on people born into certain Indian castes (Dalits, Scheduled Castes), abolished by Article 17 of India's Constitution and the Protection of Civil Rights Act 1955, yet persisting in manual scavenging and caste exclusion despite later laws.
Uranian (sexuality)
Uranian (German Urning), coined by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in 1864, is a nineteenth-century term for same-sex-desiring people, drawn from Plato's Symposium via Aphrodite Urania; distinct from Kertbeny's later "homosexual" and the British Uranian poets' pederastic usage.
Uttawar forced sterilisations
Uttawar forced sterilisations: the 6 November 1976 police raid on the Meo Muslim village of Uttawar, Haryana, during India's Emergency, in which 180 of about 550 detained villagers were forcibly vasectomised, documented by the Shah Commission.
Vaccine Revolt
The Vaccine Revolt (Portuguese: Revolta da Vacina), also known as Quebra-Lampiões, was a popular uprising in Rio de Janeiro in November 1904 against a law making smallpox vaccination compulsory.
Val Plumwood
Val Plumwood (1939–2008), Australian ecofeminist philosopher, also published as Val Routley; critiqued human/nature dualism and rationalism in Feminism and the Mastery of Nature and Environmental Culture; survived a 1985 Kakadu crocodile attack.
Valerie Solanas
Valerie Solanas (1936-1988), American writer, author of the self-published SCUM Manifesto (1967) and founder of the one-member Society for Cutting Up Men; shot and critically wounded Andy Warhol on June 3, 1968.
Van Jones
Van Jones (Anthony Kapel Jones, born 1968, Jackson, Tennessee) is an American CNN commentator, attorney, and social entrepreneur who founded the Ella Baker Center, Color of Change, Green for All, and Dream Corps, championed the Green Jobs Act of 2007 and First Step Act of 2018, and served briefly as Obama's green jobs adviser in 2009.
Van Lathan
Van Lathan Jr. is an American journalist, podcaster, and producer known for his 2018 on-air confrontation with Kanye West at TMZ, who hosts The Ringer's Higher Learning and produced the Oscar-winning short Two Distant Strangers.
Vanessa Bryant
Vanessa Marie Bryant, born Vanessa Urbieta Cornejo and previously known as Vanessa Laine, is an American philanthropist and widow of basketball star Kobe Bryant, whom she married in 2001.
Veronica Bingham, Countess of Lucan
Veronica Bingham, Countess of Lucan (Veronica Mary Duncan, 1937-2017), known as Lady Lucan, wife of the missing 7th Earl of Lucan; only witness of the 1974 Sandra Rivett murder, survived the attack, insisted her husband was dead, died by suicide in 2017.
VeryDarkMan
VeryDarkMan (VDM), Martins Vincent Otse, born 1994, is a Nigerian social media commentator and activist known as "online police", famous for call-out videos, defamation suits (Falana, Mercy Chinwo), a fabricated NGO theft claim, and deepfake impersonation scams.