What the Heck are Microaggressions Anyway?

Microaggressions aren’t just found in racism, sexism, or towards LGBTQ2 communities. Found anywhere power structures place one group of people above others, microaggressions are based in community biases. They are accumulative and help to enforce status quos. Humans stuck down, what I call, The People Pleasing Rabbit Hole understand microaggressions as cues to how they should BE in the world.

Microaggressions send impactful messaging on a verbal level, but significantly also on the body level. Because we believe body-level messaging far more than they believe in verbal messaging, we need to recognize somatic microaggressions. Then we can begin to break down the scaffolding that creates and maintains The People Pleasing Rabbit Hole.

Influential sources:

Embodied Social Justice by Rae Johnson. Especially page 55.

Merriam-Webster words we’re Watching: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/microaggression-words-were-watching


About the Host:

Elizabeth Martin-Chan is an empowerment coach inspiring and emboldening women to lovingly embrace their gifts, passions, and innate worth. She believes that women everywhere can fearlessly thrive in their authenticity. Elizabeth helps women climb out of the People Pleasing Rabbit Hole so they can feel entitled to their needs and desires; excited to jump out of bed every morning; and confident in negotiating the path they walk. She is your accomplice in disrupting status quos, so you can reclaim self-acceptance.

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Resource Links

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