Women, people with disabilities, the LGBTQ community and religious minorities all call out others for the microaggressions that they perceive. And it's no longer confined to racial issues. College campuses are awash in microaggression protests.
Some companies and institutions have initiated microaggression training as part of harassment-prevention policies. Google pulls up more than 8,000 mentions in professional papers, media and blogs.
Microaggression: The term was coined in the 1970s by Chester Pierce, an African-American professor of education and psychiatry at Harvard University, and it refers to the slights, putdowns and invalidating remarks that racial minorities experience every day when interacting with people who unknowingly engage in implicit racism.īut only now is the label gaining cultural currency.
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