The Micro-Aggressions / Microaggressions
Project http://www.microaggressions.com/about/
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This blog seeks to provide a visual representation of the everyday of “microaggressions.”
Each event, observation and experience posted is not necessarily
particularly striking in and of themselves. Often, they are never meant
to hurt – acts done with little conscious awareness of their meanings
and effects. Instead, their slow accumulation during a childhood and
over a lifetime is in part what defines a marginalized experience,
making explanation and communication with someone who does not share
this identity particularly difficult. Social others are microaggressed
hourly, daily, weekly, monthly.
This project is NOT about showing how ignorant people can be in order to simply dismiss their ignorance.
Instead, it is about showing how these comments create and enforce
uncomfortable, violent and unsafe realities onto peoples’ workplace,
home, school, childhood/adolescence/adulthood, and public
transportation/space environments.
The term “microaggressions” was originally coined to speak particularly to racialized experiences.
“Racial microaggressions are brief and commonplace daily
verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or
unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial
slights and insults toward people of color.” – Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life
This blog, however, is a space to extend this concept to
different socially constructed identities that embody privilege in
different ways – sexuality, class, religion, education level, to name a
few – in hopes of making visible the ways in which social difference is
produced and policed in everyday lives through comments of people around
you.
