Publication metadata

Canonical URL
https://www.mcloughlin.world/glossaries/ssa-lexicon/
Publication type
Dataset
Release
0.2.0
Machine-readable data
Embedded JSON-LD using SKOS and Schema.org
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CC BY 4.0
Public vocabulary · Test release v0.1.0

Strategic Self-Advocacy Ontology

A shared vocabulary for naming patterns that distort, extract, silence, exclude, or appropriate lived experience. The ontology gives each SSA concept a stable web identifier, a plain-language definition, provenance, relationships, and machine-readable structured data.

93canonical concepts
17concept schemes
JSON-LDembedded on every page
CC BY 4.0open reuse with attribution

What this upgrade tests

Human use

Clear concept pages

Every term has a canonical page that can be read, linked, cited, and discussed independently.

Machine use

Structured meaning

Each concept page embeds Schema.org-compatible JSON-LD and links into the wider SSA vocabulary.

Public infrastructure

Stable identifiers

Concepts are published as reusable web resources rather than remaining text inside glossary pages.

Governance

Visible releases

Definitions and relationships can evolve through explicit, versioned releases without silently changing meaning.

Browse by concept scheme

5 concepts

Glossary of Accessibility Abuse

When “accessibility” is weaponised to extract compliance, silence voices, or create dependency, it becomes a tool of harm — not support. This glossary identifies how systems misuse inclusive frameworks to mask control.

6 concepts

Glossary of Co-opted Patterns

This is not a dictionary. This is a firewall. The terms below were coined through lived experience and operate as semantically precise survival tools. Each one interrupts pattern theft, narrative laundering, and reworded harm.

5 concepts

Glossary Of Coercive Collaboration

Not all collaboration is consensual. This glossary names the patterns where lived experience is mined for optics or innovation, but denied authorship, equity, or power.

5 concepts

Glossary Of Digital Extraction

These are not metaphors. They’re mechanisms. This glossary maps how digital systems harvest lived-experience wisdom as data, dilute it into scalable “solutions,” and lock the originators out of authorship, funding, or influence.

5 concepts

Glossary Of Digital Sovereignty

These terms defend the metadata of lived experience in digital systems. They are not just semantics—they are resistance tools in an ecosystem designed to extract, erase, and repurpose.

5 concepts

Glossary Of Extractive Allyship

Not all support is supportive. These terms name when “help” is a disguise for control, when “amplifying” means erasing, and when so-called allies benefit more than those they claim to stand beside.

6 concepts

Glossary Of Gatekeeping Devices

Gatekeeping isn’t just an attitude — it’s an infrastructure. These terms describe the deliberate tools used to control who is seen as legitimate, resourced, or “qualified enough” to belong. By naming them, we strip them of their silent power.

5 concepts

Glossary Of Institutional Mimicry

Institutional mimicry happens when a system imitates care, inclusion, or reform to protect itself from criticism — without making meaningful changes. These terms help decode what’s real and what’s theatre.

11 concepts

Glossary of Legislation Laundering

When legislation, frameworks, strategies, agreements and standards multiply without clear accountability, implementation ownership or accessible pathways, governance itself can become a mechanism of harm. This glossary names how reform systems obscure responsibility, exhaust communities and simulate progress while leaving structural power untouched.

5 concepts

Glossary Of Narrative Laundering

Narrative laundering is when lived experience is rewritten to be more palatable, less critical, or more commercially viable. These terms describe how stories are sanitized, reframed, or stolen — all under the guise of awareness or inclusion.

5 concepts

Glossary Of Neurodivergent Pattern Theft

Neurodivergent people have long invented tools for survival, regulation, and understanding. But those tools are often renamed, medicalised, or commodified—without credit, consent, or compensation. This glossary exposes those patterns.

5 concepts

Glossary Of Structural Disappearance

Some barriers are loud. Others are silent. This glossary names the quiet designs that make people disappear — from access, records, and even statistics. Not by accident, but by structural intent.

5 concepts

Glossary of System-Led Distortion

These terms name the subtle and structural ways systems distort, co-opt, or weaponise survival behaviour. When the rules don’t match the reality, distortion becomes normalized — and people get punished for not conforming to misdesigned models.

5 concepts

Glossary Of Systemic Bypass

This glossary maps how systems design around lived experience rather than with it. These patterns show up when authorities pretend to include—but redirect, obscure, or neutralise your voice at every step.

6 concepts

Glossary Of Weaponised Access

Not all “access” is access. These terms unpack how institutions weaponise the language of inclusion while reinforcing control. This glossary is a semantic safeguard — exposing the ways that accommodations can be restructured into surveillance, dependency, and gatekeeping.

5 concepts

Glossary of Weaponised Positivity

Not all harm looks like harm. This glossary names the patterns that dress control up as kindness — and use cheerfulness to erase discomfort, truth, and dissent.

5 concepts

Strategic Self-Advocacy™ Lexicon

These are not buzzwords. These are anchors. Each term below has been coined through trauma-informed systems work and holds its own boundary. They form the protocol layer of SSA™ — protecting authorship, lived experience, and meaning from dilution.

SSA Ontology v0.1.0 · Created by Sarah Ailish McLoughlin · Ontology content licensed CC BY 4.0.

Semantic preservation rules

Translations, summaries, classifications and new versions are mappings—not replacements. Original wording, provenance, context and earlier meanings remain linked and recoverable. Machine-readable representations and visible human wording are generated from the same canonical record.

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