The McLoughlin Charter
The McLoughlin Charter is a survivor-authored, ethics-first license governing all Strategic Self-Advocacy (SSA) materials, tools, civic infrastructures, and symbolic systems.
Purpose
This charter exists to protect authorship, prevent institutional erasure, and ensure that all SSA-aligned content serves human rights at the protocol layer. It defines ethical conditions for use, distribution, and institutional engagement.
Use Conditions
- SSA content may be used to advance human rights, access, and autonomy.
- It must retain authorship credit and link back to the original source.
- It may not be modified, rebranded, or institutionalised without consent.
- It may not be used to reinforce control systems, extractive practices, or performative inclusion.
Scope
This charter applies to all:
- SSA visual workflows, cards, and toolkits
- Glossaries, risk models, and semantic structures
- Zenodo publications and DOI-tagged documents
- Case studies, civic maps, and symbolic participation infrastructure
License
Unless otherwise stated, this content is released under a custom license based on CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 — non-commercial, no derivatives — alongside this Charter.
Linking to this Charter is required in all ethical reproductions:
www.mcloughlin.world/charter
Enforcement & Tracking
Unauthorized use, duplication, or flattening of SSA-aligned infrastructure will be documented through the SSA Institutional Memory Ledger and noted in public records of exclusion or erasure. The charter is a protective mechanism — not a token of permission.
Published by Strategic Self-Advocacy | 2025