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- noun Plural form of
microaggression .
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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"microaggressions" include college buildings being all named after straight, white rich men
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Most of the encounters I dealt with before quarantine could be described as “microaggressions,” which the psychologist Derald Wing Sue defines as “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.”
Opinion | I Have Not Missed the Amy Coopers of the World By 2020
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The term “microfeminism” recalls the concept of “microaggressions”, or everyday instances of bias based on race, gender, sexual orientation or disability: the store manager who follows around Black customers thinking they will shoplift, or the parent telling their newly out child that it’s “just a phase”.
‘Hello ladies and sons of ladies’: women are using ‘microfeminisms’ to flip the gender script Alaina Demopoulos 2026
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