Equity Essentials: Identifying and Responding to Microaggressions

This sessions will identify the systems and attitudes that contribute to microaggressions and discuss strategies for responding effectively.

By the end of this workshops, you will:

• Gain a broader awareness of how oppression affects the lived experience of equity-deserving groups, and the specific context of EDI on post-secondary campuses.
• Understand how dominant groups perpetuate, actively or unconcsciously, oppression.
• Be able to apply key concepts related to anti-racism, oppression, privilege, and tokenism.
• Understand how unconscious bias affects individuals and communities; and
• Be able to identify microaggressions and apply appropriate and effective responses to microaggressions.