Microaggressions vs. Micro-rewards

Why we need to move away from documenting pain to documenting rewards.

Anyone who’s been involved in diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity (DIBE) work has encountered the term “microaggression” — a term coined by Harvard’s first black physician Chester Pierce. These are everyday, hard-to-pinpoint slights that marginalized individuals have to deal with. This includes black women who don’t receive the simple courtesy of eye-contact, or Hispanic men who have their hotel key slid towards them instead of placed in their hand. In the academy, we discuss and document…