Topic 2 Behavioural Micro-aggressions

Behavioural micro-aggressions involves behaving in a way that is hurtful or discriminatory to a marginalized person or group.

For example:

• waiter or bartender ignores a person of colour and instead serves a white person – someone whose appearance matches their identity.
• excluding a co-worker with a disability from an after-work event due to the assumption that they aren’t capable of participating.
• empty seat on crowded train next to person of colour.

These are instances of behaviour that involves prejudices and biases towards marginalized groups or persons.