Topic 3 Microinvalidations

Microinvalidations – communications or environmental cues that exclude, negate, or nullify the psychological thoughts, feelings, or experiential reality of certain group (people of colour, LGBTS, women). They may potentially represent the most damaging form of the three micro-aggressions, because they directly and insidiously deny the racial, cultural, gender or sexual-orientation reality of these groups.

Example: when white person would be telling the person of colour: “Racism does not exist in today´s society”. This is the denial of the reality in which we are living.