Class of 1996
May 18 2021, 4:00 PM Eastern Standard Time
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Interrupting Microaggressions
Microaggressions are one of the everyday ways that bias is enacted in our society. Ambiguous, insidious, and common, these often commonplace remarks or behaviors sometimes go undetected by the perpetrators and outside observers, while the target is left isolated in deciphering the situation and the ensuing confusion and hurt. This session asks participants to be ready to interrupt microaggressions as perpetrators, observers and targets. Participants should come willing to engage with difficult issues of discrimination and privilege in order to learn the tools that can disrupt cycles of discriminatory behavior. The session encompasses radical listening, a microaggressions primer, and strategies on how to interrupt microaggressions. Participants will leave the workshop with tangible tools for interrupting microaggressions.
Dr. Ralina L. Joseph (Brown '96) is a scholar, teacher, and facilitator of race and communication. She is Presidential Term Professor of Communication, Director of the Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity, and Associate Dean of Equity and Justice in Graduate Programs at the University of Washington, Seattle. She received her B.A. in American Civilization at Brown University, and M.A. and Ph.D in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Ralina is the author of numerous articles and the books, Generation Mixed Goes to School: Radically Listening to Multiracial Kids (with Allison Briscoe-Smith, 2020), Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity (2018), and Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial (2013).
Brought to you by Brown Class of 1996 with the generous donation of time and talent by Dr. Ralina Joseph!