What are the impacts of microaggressions?

Microaggressions create an ongoing feeling of being regarded as a second-class citizen or inferior.

Through greater awareness of microaggressions and their impact, CSP members can avoid perpetrating them unintentionally, and call them out when they witness them. 

Case studies

CSP members talk about the microaggressions they've faced in the workplace due to their race, disability or sexuality.

• Ishmael: CSP Chair of Council
• Iona: student officer for the DisAbility network
• Michael: project manager and CSP steward
• Sanchez-Jeremiah: lecturer and MSK physio
• Graeme: MSK physio
• Lauren: MSK physio

Resources from the CSP

• Call Out Microaggressions animation
• I’m experiencing microaggressions at work. What can I do? - CSP Frontline
• Anti-racism - 10 things you can do - CSP Frontline
• How to be an ally - CSP Frontline
• Stop and Think - CSP Frontline
• Coming out again and again - CSP Frontline
• South Asian voices - CSP Frontline
• Race discrimination is against the law - CSP Frontline
• Tackle microaggressions to transform services - Ishmael Beckford, Chair of CSP Council

Guides 

• Bristol University guide to microaggressions - Bristol University
• 'Death by a thousand cuts': How to challenge a microaggression culture  - CMI
• BVA microaggressions campaign  - British Veterinary Association
• Imperial College guide to avoiding micraggressions  - Imperial College

Videos 

• All the Little Things 
• How micro-aggressions are like mosquito bites

Articles

• Microaggressions: the sneaky form of racism that goes under the radar - Metro
• The tiny ways you are offensive...and you don't even know it - BBC
• Recognizing and responding to microaggressions at work - Harvard Business Review 
• We need to retire the term 'microaggression' - Harvard Business Review