Get Involved: Vocabulary Guide for Liberation
“Words are stand-ins for ideas, words have meaning, we know this...when we are talking about issues of oppression we have to examine every word we use, we have to interrogate the ideas that underlie those words.”
-Jarrett Lucas
Vocabulary Guide for Liberation
This guide consists of carefully selected and defined vocabulary terms, each aligned closely with the Global Dance Meditation for Black Liberation. In conjunction with the meditation, these words provide daily insight on movement, race theory, healing, and more.
We invite you to engage with the terms for each week; read our definitions, examine their meaning, ponder your relationship to the ideas these words evoke. Each week’s definitions are accompanied by a series of questions that you can reflect on, discuss with others, dance about, write/journal about, or otherwise interact with. Through deeply reflecting on these terms, we hope you gain context and clarity critical to embodying liberation in these 28 days and beyond.
Global: around the world, world wide
Dance: expressing yourself in a physical format
Meditation: centering yourself on a topic or feeling
Black: as in the unified culture
Liberation: to be freed from something or someone
Definitions by E and S, ages 13