What are microaggressions? And how can they affect our health?
- Written by: Mahima Kalla, Digital Health Transformation Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
Hermes Rivera/UnsplashMicroaggressions are seemingly innocuous verbal, behavioural or environmental slights against members of minority communities.
The term microaggressions was coined by American psychiatrist Chester Pierce in his 1970 essay Offensive Mechanisms. He explained:
Most offensive actions are not gross and crippling. They are subtle...
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