The McLoughlin Charter

The McLoughlin Charter is a survivor-authored, ethics-first license governing all Strategic Self-Advocacy (SSA) materials, tools, civic infrastructures, and symbolic systems.

Purpose

This charter exists to protect authorship, prevent institutional erasure, and ensure that all SSA-aligned content serves human rights at the protocol layer. It defines ethical conditions for use, distribution, and institutional engagement.

Use Conditions

SSA content may be used to advance human rights, access, and autonomy.
It must retain authorship credit and link back to the original source.
It may not be modified, rebranded, or institutionalised without consent.
It may not be used to reinforce control systems, extractive practices, or performative inclusion.

Scope

This charter applies to all:

SSA visual workflows, cards, and toolkits
Glossaries, risk models, and semantic structures
Zenodo publications and DOI-tagged documents
Case studies, civic maps, and symbolic participation infrastructure

License

Unless otherwise stated, this content is released under a custom license based on CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 — non-commercial, no derivatives — alongside this Charter.

Linking to this Charter is required in all ethical reproductions:
www.mcloughlin.world/charter

Enforcement & Tracking

Unauthorized use, duplication, or flattening of SSA-aligned infrastructure will be documented through the SSA Institutional Memory Ledger and noted in public records of exclusion or erasure. The charter is a protective mechanism — not a token of permission.

Published by Strategic Self-Advocacy | 2025