Our appreciation of the world is enhanced
when we understand more about the things within it.
My name is Victoria Stuart (she/her/hers) - a mature trans woman 🏳️⚧️ , determined to make the world a better place.
This page introduces my independent research on social justice advocacy - with a focus on universal human, social, and environmental rights.
I envision a world in which all people live in harmony with one another and sustainably within their environment. A world replete with universal human, social and environmental rights and practices - free of disease, poverty, hunger, discrimination, and inequality.
My mission seeks to address pressing issues and challenges, including misinformation and disinformation, divisive rhetoric, polarizing ideologies, wealth concentration and inequality, unsustainable economic practices, climate change, and ecological destruction.
My aim (purpose) is to identify and document socially harmful practices, and to identify and advocate solutions to those practices.
In our post-truth age, I seek to curate factual information so that global citizens may seek, find, and understand the issues they face, and to identify ways to address those issues.
My approach is a sandboxed knowledge engine in which material is carefully vetted, curated, and processed (information extraction).
To accomplish this, I am building a nonprofit educational and advocacy organization - Persagen.org - that includes:
an ebook: Wealth, power, and influence: Issues and solutions, readily accessible to all persons;
a textual knowledge base: Pg-Solr, with advanced search capabilities
an ontology: Eureka!, for categorical placement and understanding of key entities: persons, organizations, ...; and
a knowledge graph: Leibniz, which allows discovery and understanding of semantic relationships among entities.
Entities relevant to this project a | |||||
a Partial list: see the Eureka! ontology for a comprehensive listing. b Abbreviations: anti-DEI: anti-diversity, equity, & inclusion; anti-SOGI: anti-sexual orientation & gender identity | |||||
Wealth | Power | Influence | Issues | Solutions | |
• capitalism | • corporations | • advertising | • apathy | • academia | |
• corporations | • legal personhood | • advocacy | • post-truthism | • academic scholarship | |
• economics | • monopolies | • activism | • artificial intelligence | • higher education | |
• finance | • government | • lobbying | • synthetic media | • peer review | |
• equity | • judiciary | • charity | • deepfakes | • economy | |
• private equity | • U.S. Supreme Court | • donor-advised funds (dark money) | • belief | • labor | |
• REITs | • legislation | • philanthropy | • dogma | • employment | |
• political economy | • state legislatures | • ideology | • censorship | • labor movement | |
• wealth | • independent state legislature theory | • alt-right; right-wing; far-right | • book bans | • trade unions | |
• billionaires | • politics | • authoritarianism; totalitarianism | • drag bans | • strikes | |
• meritocracy | • law | • capitalism | • civil rights & liberties | • education | |
• oligarchy | • political corruption | • Christian right; Catholicism | • social rights | • learning | |
• plutocracy | • regulatory capture | • communism | • gender identity | • applied learning | |
• state capture | • conservatism; social conservatism | • self-expression | • active learning | ||
• democracy; social democracy | • self-determination | • authentic learning | |||
• eco-socialism | • 2SLGBTQIA+ rights | * critical thinking | |||
• environmentalism | • discrimination | • factual knowledge | |||
• extremism, violent extremism | • anti-2SLGBTQIA+ | • curation | |||
• fascism | • Islamophobia | • evidence-based medicine | |||
• feminism | • xenophobia | • public archives | |||
• fundamentalism | • ecological destruction | • trust networks | |||
• imperialism | • desertification | • nudge theory | |||
• Islamophobia | • pollution | • etiquette | |||
• liberalism | • endocrine disruptors | • positive reinforcement | |||
• libertarianism | • forever chemicals | • philosophy | |||
• militarism | • plastics | • epistemology | |||
• nationalism | • microplastics | • belief | |||
• Nazism; neo-Nazism | • education | • ideologies | |||
• neocolonialism | • anti-critical race theory | • economic ideologies | |||
• neoliberalism | • anti-SOGI b | • socialism | |||
• populism | • erosion of public education | • eco-socialism | |||
• post-truth | • private schools (vouchers) | • social democracy | |||
• socialism; eco-socialism | • environmental health | • welfare state | |||
• theocracy (dominion theocracy) | • anthropogenic climate change | • taxation & redistribution | |||
• totalitarianism | • global warming | • wealth tax | |||
• Trumpism (MAGA) | • extreme weather | * rhetoric | |||
• white nationalism, supremacism | • extremism | * dialogue | |||
• xenophobia | • alt-right | * common ground | |||
• majority-minority relations | • far-right | • social philosophy | |||
• mass media | • Islamophobia | • critical theory | |||
• violent extremism | • protest | ||||
• xenophobia | • civil disobedience | ||||
• government | • rent strikes | ||||
• authoritarianism | • social science | ||||
• democracy | • euthenics | ||||
• democratic backsliding | • accountability | ||||
• oligarchy | • open government | ||||
• theocracy | • trust | ||||
• ideologies | • trust networks | ||||
• political ideologies | • whistleblowing | ||||
• conservatism | |||||
• anti-affirmative action | |||||
• anti-DEI b | |||||
• Christian right | |||||
• Catholicism | |||||
• conscientious objection | |||||
• social conservatism | |||||
• parental rights movement | |||||
• totalitarianism | |||||
• fascism | |||||
• inequality (social; wealth) | |||||
• social inequality | |||||
• discrimination | |||||
• economic inequality | |||||
• affordable housing | |||||
• food security | |||||
• oligarchy | |||||
• plutocracy | |||||
• information fatigue | |||||
• misogyny | |||||
• anti-abortion movement | |||||
• anti-feminism | |||||
• incels | |||||
• transphobia | |||||
• polarization | |||||
• discrimination | |||||
• culture wars | |||||
• wedge tactics | |||||
• weaponization of language | |||||
• privacy | |||||
• mass surveillance | |||||
• data brokering | |||||
• propaganda | |||||
• advertising | |||||
• deception | |||||
• disinformation | |||||
• conspiracy theories | |||||
• fake news | |||||
• misinformation | |||||
• denialism | |||||
• election denial | |||||
• climate change denial | |||||
• greenwashing, sportswashing | |||||
• pseudoscience | |||||
• climate change denial | |||||
• intelligent design | |||||
• QAnon | |||||
• social media | |||||
• populism | |||||
• influencers | |||||
• deception | |||||
• disinformation | |||||
• conspiracy theories | |||||
• fake news | |||||
• misinformation | |||||
• structural violence | |||||
• systemic racism | |||||
• wealth | |||||
• distribution of wealth | |||||
• poverty | |||||
• child poverty | |||||
• homelessness | |||||
• hunger | |||||
• wealth concentration | |||||
• wealth inequality | |||||
• women’s rights | |||||
• feminism | |||||
• reproductive rights | |||||
Beyond the scope of this landing page, I document potential solutions to societal challenges. Please see the "Solutions" section (Part V) in the table of contents in my Wealth, Power and Influence: Issues and solutions" ebook.
• Persagen.org :
• Pg-Solr search / knowledge engine
• FAQ
• Notes on sources of information
• Persagen.org creator Victoria Stuart, Ph.D.
• Social media:
I've been posting on @persagen@Mastodon.social since 2023-May-28.
Please donate to support this work and our shared values and outcomes
Mentioned in my biographical profile, I am fully dedicating to addressing societal challenges - largely a solo effort.
I have faced profound age-related discrimination in my search for employment.
Your support enables me to work on this project (research and advocacy), and develop and advance this nonprofit organization, Persagen.org.
I acknowledge with gratitude that I live and work on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples - the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Across Canada, we operate on the unceded, stolen and treatied traditional territories of hundreds of diverse Indigenous nations, which include Two-Spirit and LGBTQIA+ Indigenous communities. If you are unsure on whose lands you are currently working on and living on, please refer to Native Land Digital to learn more.
Lastly, as an ally inform yourself on the historical trauma - e.g. the Canadian Indian residential school system and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (Wikipedia) | Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (Government of Canada)), treaty violations, colonialism - and persistent institutional (systemic) racism and structural violence perpetuated upon Indigenous peoples.
Kathleen DuVal's excellent 2024 book Native Nations: A Millennium in North America provides a scholarly (U.S.-centric) overview of Native American civilizations and societies pre- and post-European colonialization.