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Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Delta Pi, founded May 15, 1851 as the Adelphean Society at Wesleyan Female College in Macon, Georgia, is described as the oldest secret society for college women; renamed Alpha Delta Pi in 1913, it supports Ronald McDonald House Charities.
Alpha Xi Delta
Alpha Xi Delta (ΑΞΔ) is a women's sorority founded April 17, 1893, at Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois, by ten women; an NPC member since 1904 with over 175,000 initiates, Quill badge, and Kindly Hearts philanthropy.
Alpine divorce
Alpine divorce is an informal term for abandoning a partner on a hike or mountain trip, from Robert Barr's 1893 story "An Alpine Divorce"; it went viral in 2026 after the Grossglockner manslaughter conviction of Thomas Plamberger.
Alpine race
The Alpine race was a supposed brachycephalic European race in Ripley's 1899 Nordic-Alpine-Mediterranean taxonomy, used in scientific racism and immigration policy, and abandoned by modern anthropology.
Alt TikTok
Alt TikTok (Alternative TikTok) was a 2020 TikTok subculture defined against mainstream "straight TikTok" (dances, influencers like Charli D'Amelio), known for ironic, nonconformist content, e-girl/e-boy styling, and decline by 2021.
Alter ego
Alter ego, Latin for 'another self,' means a second identity of a person: Cicero's trusted friend, an author's fictional double (Pessoa, Bukowski), a psychological secondary self, or a chosen persona, distinct from the involuntarily dissociated alters of DID.
Alter-globalization
Alter-globalization, also called alternative globalization or alter-mundialization, is a transnational social movement favoring global cooperation while opposing neoliberal globalization's harms; its central expression is the World Social Forum under the slogan "another world is possible".
Altered state of consciousness
An altered state of consciousness is a condition in which psychological experience differs substantially from a person's ordinary state. Changes may involve self-awareness, emotion, the sense of time or place, responsiveness to.
Alternative media
Alternative media: nonmainstream media forms, also called citizen, radical, or movement media, that are smaller-scale, participatory, and often oppositional; studied through protest coverage, trust effects, and misinformation risk.
Altruism
Altruism is costly behavior benefiting others at the actor's expense. Explained by kin selection (Hamilton 1964), reciprocal altruism (Trivers 1971), and group selection; debated whether reciprocity and kin selection are separable; studied in genetics, neuroscience, and effective altruism.
Alveda King
Alveda King (born 1951), American evangelist and anti-abortion activist, niece of Martin Luther King Jr.; twice elected Georgia state representative, Priests for Life outreach director, Fox News contributor, AFPI American Dream chair.
Alvin Toffler
Alvin Toffler (1928–2016), American futurist and author of Future Shock (1970), The Third Wave (1980), and Powershift (1990); coined future shock, information overload, and prosumer, and deeply influenced China's 1980s reformers.
Ama (海女) (diving)
Ama (海女) are Japanese female breath-hold divers who harvest abalone, sea urchins, and seaweed without breathing apparatus, using kachido and funado methods; related to Korea's haenyeo, with numbers falling from 9,100 in 1978 to about 2,000.
Amalek (עמלק)
Amalek (עמלק), Amalekites: biblical nomadic people of the Negeb and Sinai, grandson of Esau in Genesis 36, Israel's arch-enemy from Rephidim to Saul and Agag, commanded blotted out, read on Shabbat Zakhor before Purim.
Amalie Wilhelmine Sieveking
Amalie Wilhelmine Sieveking (1794–1859) was a Lutheran philanthropist in Hamburg who in 1832 founded the Weiblicher Verein für Armen- und Krankenpflege, the first Protestant voluntary society in Germany organized and led by a woman.
Amalija Knavs
Amalija Knavs (born Amalija Ulčnik, 1945–2024), Slovenian textile pattern maker at the Jutranjka factory in Sevnica, mother of former first lady Melania Trump and of Ines; immigrated to the U.S. on family sponsorship, naturalized 2018.
Amanda Hearst
Amanda Randolph Hearst (born 1984, New York), American socialite, model, and Hearst heiress; co-founder of sustainable fashion retailer Maison de Mode and the Well Beings animal-welfare nonprofit.
Amanda Nguyen
Amanda Nguyen (born 1991), Vietnamese-American activist and bioastronautics scientist, founded Rise, championed the 2016 Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act, and became the first Vietnamese woman in space on Blue Origin's NS-31 flight, April 14, 2025.
Amanuensis
Amanuensis (plural amanuenses): a person employed to write from dictation or copy for another, from Latin servus a manu. Covers Roman secretaries like Tiro, monastic scriptoria, Milton, and modern exam-scribe use.
Amateur
Amateur, from Latin amator (lover): a person pursuing art, science, sport, or leisure for love rather than pay. The term carries dual connotations of passion and unskill, and amateurism as an ideology originated in 19th-century British sport.
Ambedkar family
The Ambedkar family (आंबेडकर कुटुंब) is the Indian sociopolitical family of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, Constitution drafter; Mahar origins at Ambadawe, Sakpal surname, wives Ramabai and Savita, and descendants Prakash Ambedkar (VBA) active in politics.
Ambivalence
Ambivalence: simultaneous contradictory feelings or attitudes toward the same object, coined by Eugen Bleuler (1911) for schizophrenia and extended by Freud. Modern research distinguishes objective from subjective ambivalence and links it to discomfort, weak attitude-behavior ties, and decisions.
Ambivalent Sexism Inventory
The Ambivalent Sexism Inventory (ASI) is a 22-item questionnaire measuring hostile and benevolent sexism toward women, introduced by Peter Glick and Susan Fiske in 1996.
Ameera al-Taweel
Ameera al-Taweel (أميرة بنت عيدان بن نايف الطويل), Saudi philanthropist born 1983, ex-wife of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, former vice chair of Alwaleed Philanthropies, women's rights advocate, now CEO of TimeAgency.
American College of Pediatricians
American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), not to be confused with the American Academy of Pediatrics: a small socially conservative U.S. pediatric group founded in 2002, Atlanta-based, 501(c)(3), anti-LGBTQ positions, SPLC-designated hate group.
American Colonization Society
The American Colonization Society (ACS), also the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States, founded in Washington, D.C., in 1816, sent over 13,000 free Black Americans to the colony of Liberia, which became independent in 1847.
American Dream
The American Dream is the national ethos of opportunity, coined by James Truslow Adams in The Epic of America (1931). Covers its founding ideals, historical strands, and measured economic mobility.
American Family Association
American Family Association (AFA), formerly National Federation for Decency, is a Tupelo, Mississippi-based conservative Christian 501(c)(3) founded in 1977 by Donald Wildmon, known for TV decency campaigns, American Family Radio, One Million Moms, corporate boycotts, and its SPLC hate-group designation.
American Futurist
The American Futurist is a publication founded April 15, 2020, promoting American Futurism and revolutionary Fascist ideals; it calls itself a media organization and think tank, disavows Atomwaffen Division, and publishes via Tor, Telegram, and Gab.
American Indian Movement
The American Indian Movement (AIM) is a grassroots Native American rights organization founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in July 1968 by Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, and George Mitchell.