The WAN's Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee is hosting its first professional development workshop around microaggressions.
Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership. In many cases, these hidden messages may invalidate the group identity or experiential reality of target persons, demean them on a personal or group level, communicate they are lesser human beings, suggest they do not belong with the majority group, threaten and intimidate, or relegate them to inferior status and treatment
Workshop Mission: To introduce the concept of microaggressions to the WAN community and further understanding by engaging in activities around spotting microaggressions in their everyday lives.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
Introducing the concept of microaggressions
Tangible understanding through an exercise of spotting microaggressions and discuss how to dismantle microaggressions as a bystander
Building empathy through a discussion on microaggression impact and the concept of “Death by a thousand nicks”
June 28, 2021
7 - 8:30 PM EDT
Via Zoom (link to be shared after registration)
FREE to MEMBERS ONLY!
To register: https://conta.cc/3x1WQAc
To get the most out of our time together, we ask that every participant sets aside some time before the workshop to reflect. Please review the three resources listed below to begin to recognize how your own social identities subtly influence the way you might interact with others or the biases you unconsciously hold:
Read Chapter 12, What are microaggression? from the book, "So You Want To Talk About Race".
Watch I, Too, Am Harvard, by Ahsante the Artist.
Watch Examples of Workplace Microaggressions by Emtrain.
