“Show me what that weird thing is on your wall.” “Could whoever that is with the kid in the background mute their line?” “Someone’s hair is looking very gray these days.” These are just a few examples ...

Here are five learnings from science that should help us understand the nature and impact of microaggressions at work that will improve our ability to deal with them. Microaggressions are derived from ...

A microaggression is a behavior or communication (spoken or unspoken) that feeds into stereotypes and stigmatizations of gender, race, orientation, religion or other marginalized groups.

Battling cancer is already a mentally taxing time, but it is worse for those in the LGBTQ+ community, who will likely experience microaggressions while receiving cancer care and treatment. There are ...

I recently did an informal study over a period of few months where I noted down the first thing that people said to me when they met me. Well-meaning, but a tad odd, don’t you think? These have ...

“You don’t behave enough like staff,” I was told derisively by the tenured professor who was then my supervisor. Despite my Ph.D., my years of experience at various levels of higher education, and my ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I tell stories about creating environments that empower everyone. Microaggressions can be defined as “the everyday verbal, ...

Asian Americans and friends can exercise their quick-wit muscles in a Minnesota-made card game addressing microaggressions.

Clapback, her first game, created in collaboration with FAWK (the Funny Asian Women Kollective), aims to empower Asian ...

As a woman and a person of color, I've been on the receiving end of many microaggressions. A Harvard Business Review article said that avoiding committing microaggressions is not enough. "It's not ...

The research is clear: Diverse companies are likely to outperform less diverse peers on profitability. Yet progress is slow, and gaps are widening between companies that embrace diversity, equity, and ...