Microaggressions

Now, we would like to delve in how internal dominances plays out in social interactions and how they impact people who are on the receiving end of microaggressions.

Microaggressions are slights made either intentionally or unintentionally to other people but have a real impact on the people who have received the slights. When you assume that a person of colour was born elsewhere, or you question someone’s ability to understand a task if they have a disability, you are displaying forms of microaggressions.

Another way to look at microaggressions are as subtle actions of exclusion. A term used by Jana and Baran (2023) explain that microaggressions are actions that are done subtly but their impact excludes a person based on an intersection of their identity.

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