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Matt Fradd
Matt Fradd (Matthew Fradd), Catholic speaker and author of The Porn Myth (Ignatius Press, 2017), host of the Pints With Aquinas podcast, founder of ThePornEffect.com and Strive21, now on The Daily Wire.
Matt Schlapp
Matt Schlapp (Matthew Schlapp), American political operative and lobbyist, chairman of the American Conservative Union since 2014, runs CPAC; former George W. Bush White House political director, Koch lobbyist, Trump ally, and 2023 sexual assault lawsuit defendant.
Mattachine Society
The Mattachine Society, founded by Harry Hay in Los Angeles in 1950, was the first sustained gay rights organization in the United States and a central homophile-movement group with national chapters.
Matthew 5:32
Matthew 5:32, the Matthean divorce exception verse from the Sermon on the Mount, permits divorce only for porneia (sexual immorality); its Greek phrase parektos logou porneias and its meaning are debated across Christian traditions.
Matthew F. Hale
Matthew F. Hale (born 1971), American white supremacist, Pontifex Maximus of the World Church of the Creator from 1996; convicted in 2004 of soliciting Judge Joan Lefkow's murder, serving 40 years.
Matthew Hussey
Matthew Hussey is a British dating coach and New York Times bestselling author of Get the Guy and Love Life, host of the Love Life podcast, TV love coach on The Single Wives, and founder of the Love Life coaching brand and Matthew AI.
Matthew Ryan
Matthew Ryan: chiefly Mathew (Maty) Ryan, Australian goalkeeper born 1992, Levante and Socceroos captain with over 100 caps and the 2015 Asian Cup Golden Glove. Distinct from Olympic equestrian Matt Ryan and other namesakes.
Matthew Shepard
Matthew Shepard, also known as Matt Shepard, was a gay American student at the University of Wyoming who died after a 1998 attack near Laramie.
Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (Shepard-Byrd Act), 18 U.S.C. § 249, is a 2009 federal law criminalizing bias-motivated violent bodily injury based on race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
Mattie Blaylock
Mattie Blaylock, also called Celie, was Wyatt Earp's common-law wife who accompanied him from Dodge City to Tombstone in 1879, struggled with laudanum addiction, was abandoned for Josephine Marcus, and died of an overdose in 1888.
Maturity (psychological)
Psychological maturity: age-graded development toward higher agreeableness, conscientiousness, and emotional stability (the maturity principle), the adolescent maturity gap between cognitive and psychosocial maturity, and links to stability and life outcomes.
Maulana Karenga
Maulana Karenga (Ronald McKinley Everett, born 1941) is an Africana studies scholar at Cal State Long Beach, founder of the Us Organization and Kawaida philosophy, and creator of Kwanzaa in 1966.
Maureen Starkey Tigrett
Maureen Starkey Tigrett, born Mary Cox and known as Maureen Cox, was a Liverpool hairdresser who married Beatles drummer Ringo Starr in 1965 and had three children.
Maurice Grosse
Maurice Grosse (1919–2006), British engineer and inventor, Society for Psychical Research member and principal investigator of the 1977 Enfield poltergeist case with Guy Lyon Playfair; also designed the SPR's Myers Medal.
Mauritians
Mauritians, also known as the Mauritian people or people of Mauritius, are the nationals and inhabitants of Mauritius, an Indian Ocean island nation whose population descends entirely from migration.
Maxim Martsinkevich (Максим Сергеевич Марцинкевич)
Maxim Martsinkevich, also known as Tesak, was a Russian neo-Nazi activist and video blogger who founded Format-18 and Restrukt before his death in 2020, which was officially ruled suicide.
Maya peoples
Maya peoples: Indigenous speakers of about thirty Mayan languages, including K'iche', Q'eqchi', Kaqchikel, Mam and Yucatec, living in Guatemala, southern Mexico, Belize and Honduras; about 42% of Guatemala's 2018 census population.
Mazdak (مزدک)
Mazdak (مزدک), son of Bāmdād, led Mazdakism, an egalitarian Zoroastrian-derived movement under Sasanian king Kawād I (488–531), preaching common property; suppressed by Khusrau I.
McCollough effect
The McCollough effect is an orientation-contingent color aftereffect, discovered by Celeste McCollough in 1965, in which achromatic gratings appear tinted with the complementary hue of the color paired with that orientation during adaptation; it is unusually long-lasting and shows little interocular transfer.
Me generation
Me generation is a label for American baby boomers as 1970s young adults, from Tom Wolfe's 1976 "Me Decade" essay, denoting self-absorption; later echoed in Twenge's Generation Me for those born in the 1980s and 1990s, a claim contested by cohort researchers.
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers (1925–1963), NAACP's first Mississippi field secretary, World War II Army veteran, voter-registration organizer, and James Meredith ally, assassinated June 12, 1963 in Jackson by Byron De La Beckwith, convicted in 1994.
Medha Patkar
Medha Patkar (born 1954) is an Indian social activist, founder-leader of the Narmada Bachao Andolan against the Sardar Sarovar Dam, National Convenor of NAPM, and Right Livelihood Award (1991) and Goldman Prize (1992) recipient.
Media bias
Media bias: systematic slant in news selection, framing, or presentation toward political or organizational interests. Also covered via the Media Bias Taxonomy (linguistic, cognitive, context, reporting types), objectivity history, and Ad Fontes/AllSides rating scales.
Media studies
Media studies is the academic study of mass media (newspapers, TV, film, internet) as texts, institutions, technologies, and audiences. Also called communication research in the US; institutionalized mid-20th century, notably via Britain's Birmingham CCCS and US effects research.
Medical fetishism
Medical fetishism (medfet) is sexual arousal from medical scenarios, equipment, roles, or procedures, from doctor/nurse roleplay to catheters and enemas. Not a disorder unless distress or impairment; ICD-11 removed standalone fetishism diagnoses.
Mediterranean race
Mediterranean race: a late 19th-to-mid 20th century anthropological subrace of the Caucasian race, defined by Giuseppe Sergi in 1895 and placed alongside Nordic and Alpine types; now rejected by modern genetics and anthropology.
Mediumship
Mediumship is the claimed mediation of communication between the living and the dead, the core practice of Spiritualism founded after the 1848 Fox sisters rappings; it divides into physical and mental forms and remains scientifically contested.
Medni Kadyrova (Медни Мусаевна Кадырова)
Medni Musaevna Kadyrova (Медни Мусаевна Кадырова), born 1978, née Aydamirova, is Ramzan Kadyrov's wife, founder of the Firdaws fashion house, vice-president of the Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation, mother of 14 children, and under US sanctions since 2020.
Meena (मीणा)
Meena (मीणा, also Mina) is a Scheduled Tribe community of eastern Rajasthan, historically ruling a dozen states before the twelfth century, stigmatized under the Criminal Tribes Act 1871, denotified in 1952, and given ST recognition in 1954.
Meena Harris
Meena Harris (Meenakshi Ashley Harris), born 1984, is an American lawyer, author, and founder of the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign, and the niece of Kamala Harris.