What are Microaggressions in the Workplace? If It Wasn’t Intentionally Offensive – Why Are People So Sensitive?

[Anisa Aven]

A microaggression is any unwittingly harmful words or behaviors that cause another to experience emotional pain, exclusion, or discrimination. Microaggressions are rampant and while most often perpetrated against historically marginalized groups, majority groups experience microaggressions too, albeit to a lesser degree. I come from the camp of, “If I can name it. I can change it.” […]