From the course: Building Inclusive Work Communities
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Microaggressions
From the course: Building Inclusive Work Communities
Microaggressions
- After an active period of social unrest in our community, a colleague and I decided to count the microaggressions we experienced at our jobs. In just a few hours that morning, I had already counted six. What was most surprising for me was the realization that I'd become so desensitized to being treated in a marginalized manner over the course of my career that I would've missed half of those microaggressions if I hadn't consciously decided to count each one that day. After this lesson, you will be able to identify microaggressions and be able to develop tools to reframe your own behavior to promote inclusivity within your work community. A microaggression is any statement or action that results in the indirect or subtle discrimination against members of a historically marginalized group. One of the microaggressions I experienced that day was from a client, who said, "Thanks for the detail in this report, Joanne. I must…
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