Community Standards for Virtual Events
Welcome to K-SAA Virtual Events
Please read our community standards carefully.
We welcome and honor people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientations, abilities, religions, national origins, and socio-economic classes or backgrounds. Hate speech will not be tolerated and will result in being removed from virtual events.
The language used in virtual events will include and recognize the people impacted by forms of injustice and oppression. Drawing from anti-racist practices, we have adopted the following standards for communication and engagement in this virtual space:
Terms for Speaking about Race and Slavery:
Use the term BIPOC to refer to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
Use the term “Indigenous peoples.” Refer to the specific tribe, nation, or people when possible. Acknowledge the genocide and displacement of Indigenous peoples from their lands. Acknowledge and honor their continuing presence as past, present, and future caretakers and knowledge keepers of those lands.
Use the terms “enslaved” or “enslaved person/mother/child” and “enslaver” over “slave,” “master,” and other terms that fail to capture the brutality of chattel slavery and the resistance and survival of individuals and communities.
Name the abduction and forced migration of enslaved people, avoiding euphemisms.
Name enslaved people whenever possible.
Name sexual violence, rape, and assault, rather than using euphemisms.
Use the terms, “marginalized people,” “minoritized people,” or “the global majority” rather than “minorities” or “other races”. By moving beyond eurocentric perspectives, we may better draw attention to the networks of thoughts which underline nineteenth-century scholarship.
Use “US” or “United States” to refer to the US. “America” or “the Americas” is used to refer to the larger region including Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.
Use “Global North/ Global South” rather than “developing/developed” or “first/third world”
Terms for Speaking about Other Forms of Marginalization
Use the terms “incarcerated people” or “people who have had contact with law enforcement,” rather than “criminals”
Refer to people with any form of disability, visible or invisible, as “disabled people” or “people with disabilities.” Name ableism and discrimination against the disabled.
Please get in touch if you’d like to suggest additions or changes, and enjoy the event.