Building a Better Definition of ‘Woke’ Demonstrators hold placards during the Pride Liberation March, an event highlighting the Black Lives Matter movement within the LGBTQ community, in ...

A Viral Moment on the Definition of “Woke” Reveals All You Need to Know About the Right’s Attacks Conservative author Bethany Mandel’s struggle to define the word “woke” spoke volumes.

DeSantis invokes MLK as he proposes Stop Woke Act against critical race theory December 15, 2021 More than 3 years ago ...

The OED traced the origin of woke’s newer definition to a 1962 New York Times article by Black author William Melvin Kelley describing how white beatniks were appropriating Black slang at the time.

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Houchens quotes a definition from Wilfred Reilly: “a ‘woke’ person is someone who believes that (1) the institutions of American society are currently and intentionally set up to oppress ...

As for definition: If we know that woke, in DeSantis’ mind, refers to Black, then it “comes to die” here means the erasure of Blackness in Florida.

So let me try a different exercise — instead of a pithy term or definition, let me write a sketch of the “woke” worldview, elaborating its internal logic as if I myself believed in it.

DeSantis introduces ‘Stop WOKE Act’ to ban critical race theory from schools, workplaces By Callie Patteson Published Dec. 15, 2021 Updated Dec. 15, 2021, 5:14 p.m. ET 0 seconds of 37 ...

Kenn Orphan, December 2021 Kenn Orphan is an artist, sociologist, radical nature lover and weary, but committed activist. He can be reached at kennorphan.com.