The idea for this dictionary originated with JASS Mesoamerica, where feminists and women activists from different social movements found themselves creating alternative terms to describe their context and strategies since old ones had lost their meaning. lda Facio, a osta ican feminist writer, activist, and lawyer with J wrote the first version, iccionario Feminista, in panish. Her goal was to “free words from the box or mindset of the patriarchal paradigm”. s J’ work deepened in outheast sia and outhern frica, we quickly realized that we had all been searching for and “inventing” new words to more accurately describe the contexts and dynamics of power within which we’re operating, and the myriad ways in which women experience and resist oppression. We began building the nglish version of the Feminist ictionary to develop a common language, history, and sense of purpose within the J community. s more people contributed, we quickly realized the dictionary’s potential as a vehicle for the political act of defining our world based on a distinct feminist political perspective – one that is constantly shifting and recognizes how distortions in social, economic, and political power and privilege form the basis of inequality and injustice.