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YesAllWomen
YesAllWomen (#YesAllWomen) is a feminist Twitter hashtag created May 24, 2014, by @gildedspine after the Isla Vista killings, countering #NotAllMen; over one million tweets in days made it a 2014 top-ten hashtag and a precursor to #MeToo.
YFZ Ranch
YFZ Ranch (Yearning for Zion Ranch) was the FLDS compound near Eldorado, Texas, bought in 2003; site of the 2008 raid that removed hundreds of children and led to Warren Jeffs's life sentence.
Yi people
Yi people (彝族), also historically called Lolo, an official ethnic minority of southwest China; 9.8 million at the 2020 census, concentrated in Yunnan and Liangshan, Sichuan; Lolo-Burmese languages, bimo religion, logographic script.
Yogyakarta Principles
The Yogyakarta Principles (2006) are 29 non-binding principles restating international human rights law for sexual orientation and gender identity, drafted by 29 experts in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and supplemented by YP+10 in 2017.
Yolanda King
Yolanda Denise King (1955-2007), eldest child of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, American actress and producer, founder of Higher Ground Productions, creator of the one-woman play Tracks, died in Santa Monica in 2007.
Yoni massage
Yoni massage is a tantric-style sensual bodywork focused on the vulva (Sanskrit yoni), aimed at body awareness and relaxation rather than sex; the technique is a 20th-century neo-Tantric development by figures like Joseph Kramer, not an ancient lineage, and is unaccredited and often outside licensed massage practice.
Yoo Byung-eun (유병언)
Yoo Byung-eun (1941–2014) was a South Korean businessman and religious leader who co-founded the Evangelical Baptist Church and was linked to the Sewol ferry that sank in 2014.
Yoruba people
The Yoruba (Yorùbá) are a large West African people of southwestern Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, speaking Yorùbá (30+ million speakers), tracing sacred origins to Ile-Ifẹ and Oduduwa, and historically organized into kingdoms, the largest being the Ọyọ empire, with a triple religious heritage of Islam, Christianity, and Orisa worship.
Yorubaland
Yorubaland: homeland of the Yoruba in southwestern Nigeria, southern Benin, and southern Togo, roughly the size of England. City-state civilization from Ile-Ifẹ and the Ọyọ Empire to the 1893 British protectorate.
Yoshio Kodama (兒玉誉士夫)
Yoshio Kodama (兒玉誉士夫, 1911–1984) was a Japanese ultranationalist, wartime navy procurement agent in Shanghai, and postwar political fixer linking the yakuza, U.S. intelligence, and the ruling party, later central to the Lockheed bribery scandal.
Yossi Ghinsberg
Yossi Ghinsberg (born 1959) is an Israeli adventurer, author, and motivational speaker who survived about three weeks alone in the Bolivian Amazon in 1981, chronicled in his bestseller Jungle and the 2017 film starring Daniel Radcliffe.
Young Global Leaders
Young Global Leaders (YGLs) are members of the World Economic Forum's Forum of Young Global Leaders, founded 2004 (precursor Global Leaders for Tomorrow, 1992); a nomination-only, under-40, three-year leadership program with 1,400+ members from 120+ countries.
Young Lords
The Young Lords: Puerto Rican civil and human rights organization, founded as a Chicago street gang in 1959 and transformed in 1968 by José "Cha Cha" Jiménez; known for the 13 Point Program, Rainbow Coalition, Garbage Offensive, and Lincoln Hospital occupation.
Youth
Youth is the life stage between childhood and adulthood; the UN defines it statistically as ages 15-24 (1.2 billion people, 16% of the global population), with overlapping adolescent (10-19) and young people (10-24) brackets.
Youth empowerment
Youth empowerment is the process by which young people gain the agency, voice, and access needed to make choices that improve their lives and communities.
Yuba County Five
Yuba County Five: five disabled California men who vanished after a February 24, 1978 Chico basketball game; car found 70 miles off-route, four found dead, Gary Mathias never found.
Yuezhi (月氏)
Yuezhi (月氏), ancient nomadic confederation of Gansu near Dunhuang, also called Tochari by Greeks; defeated by the Xiongnu in 176 BCE, migrated to Bactria, and its Kushan tribe founded the Kushan Empire.
Yugoslav emigration wave
The Yugoslav emigration wave was the mass labor migration of Yugoslav citizens to Western Europe, mainly West Germany, that peaked at 1.1 million workers in 1973.
Yugoslavs
Yugoslavs: people declaring a supranational Yugoslav national identity rather than Serb, Croat, Slovene, or other ethnicity. Promoted by integral Yugoslavism, King Aleksandar's dictatorship, and socialist soft nation-building; 273,077 declared in the 1971 census, peaking in 1981 before the 1991–1995 wars ended the category.
Yupik peoples
Yupik peoples (Yupiit, "real people") are Indigenous peoples of western and southwestern Alaska and the Russian Far East, speaking Yupik languages of the Inuit-Yupik family. About 27,000 strong, centered on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, they maintain subsistence, sharing networks, and the most widely spoken Alaska Native language.
Yuppie
Yuppie, from "young urban professional": 1980s label for affluent young city professionals with a consumerist lifestyle; coined about 1980-1982, peaked with Newsweek's 1984 "Year of the Yuppie", declined by 1991.
Yuri Kochiyama
Yuri Kochiyama (河内山百合子; born Mary Yuriko Nakahara, 1921-2014) was a Japanese American civil rights activist, WWII incarceree at Jerome, friend of Malcolm X, and advocate for redress, Puerto Rican independence, and political prisoners.
Yusufzai
Yusufzai (Yousafzai, Yusafzai), a large Pashtun tribe originally from the Kandahar-Kabul area that settled the Peshawar valley and Swat, known for the Wesh land-redistribution system, resistance to the Mughals, and the Yusufzai State of Swat.
Zaghawa
The Zaghawa, self-named Beri, are a semi-nomadic pastoral people of Chad and Sudan who founded and ruled the early kingdom of Kanem northeast of Lake Chad until about 1075.
Zak Bagans
Zak Bagans (born 1977) is the American host of Ghost Adventures, founder of Las Vegas's Haunted Museum, director of Demon House, and author of Ghost Hunting for Dummies, which critics found contained plagiarized material.
Zalphas
Zalphas (Zalpha, Gen ZAlpha) are a micro-generation born on the cusp of Generation Z and Generation Alpha, roughly late 2000s to early 2010s; ranges vary (2006–2012, 2008–2014, 2010–2015) and the cohort is described as pandemic-era digital natives.
Zambo
Zambo: Spanish colonial term for a person of mixed African and Indigenous American ancestry, the lowest derogatory casta label; cognate cafuzo in Brazil; descendant peoples include the Garífuna and Miskitu; offensive and archaic in English.
Zana of Tkhina
Zana of Tkhina (Зана) was a 19th-century captive woman of Abkhazia's Tkhina village, once called an Almasty wild woman; 2021 ancient DNA shows she was a modern human of East African ancestry.
Zarit Burden Interview
The Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI) is a 22-item questionnaire measuring the subjective burden of informal caregivers of people with dementia, introduced by Zarit, Reever, and Bach-Peterson in 1980.
Zerai Deres
Zerai Deres was an Eritrean interpreter who protested Italian colonialism in Rome on 15 June 1938, kneeling to the looted Lion of Judah before brandishing a scimitar.