In person, people with disabilities often experience microaggressions – comments or subtle insults based on stereotypes. New types of microaggressions play out online as well, according to new Cornell ...

Telling a disabled person they are “inspiring” is a “microaggression”, an NHS trust has claimed. Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has warned doctors not to put “people in broad ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 2020 McKinsey survey showed 84% of respondents have experienced workplace microaggressions, with additional ...

NEW HAVEN, CT - APRIL 01: Bryant Williams, Jovan Washington, Cecil Boyce and Louis Estrada play basketball and hang out on their neighborhood block on April 1, 2012 in New Haven, Connecticut. All four ...

In a world that too often marginalizes people based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, body size, or disability, medicine can often be no different. Far from "doing no harm," it treats some ...

Many microaggressions are subtle, but they can still harm marginalized employees and create a toxic work culture. Over the past few decades, companies have taken significant steps to improve workplace ...

A microaggression is a behavior or communication (spoken or unspoken) that feeds into stereotypes and stigmatizations of gender, race, orientation, religion or other marginalized groups.

In a previous post, I indicated that most well-intentioned White Americans have inherited the racial biases of their forebears; that the most harmful forms remain outside the level of conscious ...

Words have power. This is also true of the words we use around disability. If you scroll through news articles about people with disabilities, you may see words or phrases like “stricken with multiple ...

Many Americans have experienced "microaggressions," but not as many know it. Microaggressions are the "constant and continuing reality of slights, insults, invalidations and indignities visited upon ...