Understanding Microaggressions

Negative and/or offensive, microaggressions often attack someone’s identity as these actions can be directed towards a person’s race, gender, sexual orientation, religion and disability. Microaggressions are often rooted in unconscious bias and can be hard to identify.

Addressing microaggressions starts with a combination of individual responses, organisational efforts, and broader cultural changes. Providing a course that can help to understand microaggressions is a great start to identifying where they come from and when microaggressions are being used.

Stereotypes are the perspectives we have about types of people without understanding the individual person. Read this blog post for more about stereotyping.