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.
Staging Participation Without Power
Creating the illusion of inclusive input while decisions have already been made. Often used for PR, not systemic change.
Extracting Wisdom, Withholding Credit
When feedback from disabled or marginalised people is collected, repackaged by professionals, and credited to the organisation instead of the contributor.
Inviting Us In, Then Talking Over Us
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.
When Collaboration Isn’t Actually Optional
Situations where refusal to collaborate risks backlash, exclusion, or funding loss—pressuring lived experience advocates to participate in disempowering ways.
When They Want Your Ideas—But Not Your Name
Allowing participation in idea generation but blocking participants from official recognition, publication rights, or intellectual property stakes.
A collection of protected semantic frameworks written by lived-experience authors. Each glossary holds the line against pattern theft, narrative laundering, and coercive rewording.
These terms defend the metadata of lived experience in digital systems.
View Entries →The core terms that scaffold SSA™ and uphold protocol-layer authorship.
View Entries →These terms unpack how institutions weaponise the language of inclusion while reinforcing control.
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Glossary of Coercive Collaboration
Not all collaboration is consensual. This glossary names patterns where lived experience is mined for optics or innovation, but denied authorship, equity, or power. Includes terms such as Inclusion Theatre, Consultation Laundering, and Authorship Gatekeeping.
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