[ UJ TRANSFORMATION UNIT n APRIL 2024 ] 3 Asexual A person who is sexually not attracted to others or does not have a sexual orientation. Allyship A practice of unlearning and re-evaluating beliefs and actions, in which a person seeks to build relationships based on trust, consistency, and accountability with marginalised groups. Bisexual A sexual orientation that is attracted to both men and women. Cisgender A person whose gender identity matches the sex that they were assigned at birth. Disability A condition that may restrict a person’s mental, sensory, or mobility functions to undertake or perform a task in the same way as a person who does not have a disability. 4 Colonisation Colonisation is the act of setting up a colony over territories beyond its borders or settling among and establishing political control over the indigenous people of an area. Coloniality Coloniality refers to long standing patterns of power, practices and legacies of European colonialism in social orders and forms of knowledge, advanced in postcolonial studies. Decolonisation The call for the decolonisation of educational institutions in South Africa emanates from the persistent marginalisation, devaluation, silencing and alienation of local and indigenous knowledges and practices; the continued privileging of Eurocentric knowledge, worldviews, cultures and ways of being that render the experience of the academy as disempowering for the majority of the community it is intended to serve. (UJ Charter on Decolonisation) 5 Ethnicity A social group that has a common national or cultural tradition. Feminism The feminism movement’s aim was to ensure equality of sexes in all spheres – legally, socially, and economically – ending sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression through a system of patriarchy. Gender Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity. Gender identity Gender identity is a personal sense of one’s own gender. Heterosexual People who are sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex. 6 Homosexual A person who is emotionally, romantically, and/or sexually attracted to a person of the same sex. Intersex A general term used for several variations in sex characteristics a person is born with, including reproductive organs, sexual anatomy or chromosomes that are not considered “standard” for either male or female. LGBTQIA An acronym used for those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual. Micro aggression Micro aggression is a term used for unconscious commonplace daily verbal, behavioural, or environmental indignities, which often unintentionally disempower someone based on a marginalised group. [ 2 ]
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