Ableism: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or group of people who possess a disability.
Ageism: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or group of people because of their age.
Capitalism: an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

Classism: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or group of people due to their economic status.
Colonialism: the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
Criminal legal system: a series of government agencies and institutions that seek to rehabilitate and punish offenders, prevent other crimes, and provide moral support for victims. The primary institutions of the criminal legal system are the police, prosecution and defense lawyers, the courts, and prisons. Some people may also refer to this as the criminal justice system.
Dating violence: violence that occurs in a relationship where two or more people are dating. This term is often used when talking about violence in relationships involving teens.
Domestic violence: a pattern of coercive control involving emotional, verbal, physical, and/or sexual violence that occurs in a relationship where people are married and/or living together.

Family violence: Emotional, verbal, physical, and/or sexual violence that occurs within a family.
Gender-based violence (GBV): violence that is directed at an individual based on their gender identity. GBV typically looks like sexual violence, dating violence, domestic violence, and/or stalking. For brevity, we use the term gender-based violence to talk about the kinds of violence we primarily support people with at WomenSafe.
Intersectionality: the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
Intimate partner violence (IPV): a pattern of coercive control involving emotional, verbal, physical, and/or sexual violence that occurs in a romantic and/or sexual relationship.
LGBTQIA+: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual, plus other marginalized identities related to human sexuality. We also use the term queer when referring to the LGBTQIA+ community.
Non-profit industrial complex: The non-profit industrial complex (or the NPIC) is a system of relationships between the State (or local and federal governments), the owning classes, foundations, and non-profit/NGO social service & social justice organizations that results in the surveillance, control, derailment, and everyday management of political movements.

Oppression-based violence: violence that is directed at an individual based on the oppressions they experience in society like racism, transphobia, sexism, homophobia, ableism, classism, ageism, etc.
Prison-industrial complex: the overlapping interests of government and industry that use surveillance, policing, and imprisonment as solutions to economic, social, and political problems.
Racism: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or group of people based on their race or ethnicity, specifically races and ethnicities that are marginalized in our society.
Sexism: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against women and femmes due to their gender identity.
Sexual violence: violence that includes a range of actions such as sexual harassment, sexual assault, rape, child sexual abuse, sex trafficking, etc.

Stalking: a pattern of behavior directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for the person’s safety or the safety of others; or suffer substantial emotional distress.
Survivor: someone who has experienced gender-based violence. We know that not all people who experience gender-based violence use this term to talk about their experiences.
Transphobia: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed at a person or group of people based on their gender identity not aligning with their sex assigned at birth.