Authorship Gatekeeping
Allowing participation in idea generation but blocking participants from official recognition, publication rights, or intellectual property stakes.
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.
Allowing participation in idea generation but blocking participants from official recognition, publication rights, or intellectual property stakes.
Situations where refusal to collaborate risks backlash, exclusion, or funding loss—pressuring lived experience advocates to participate in disempowering ways.
When feedback from disabled or marginalised people is collected, repackaged by professionals, and credited to the organisation instead of the contributor.
Creating the illusion of inclusive input while decisions have already been made. Often used for PR, not systemic change.
When people with lived experience are invited to a table but not allowed to set the agenda—or are only included to validate predetermined outcomes.