McGill Microaggressions
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My friend and I (we are both women, I am racialized) were at the graduate house. We were sitting by a cabinet filled with boardgames and a guy (non-racialized) comes over to pick out a game. He exclaimed to us “Wow! This is so disorganized! I’m going to write to PGSS about fixing this game cabinet! Like, I don’t care about women’s issues, or problems of new Canadians on campus, these games need to be sorted out!” When neither of us laughed at his “joke” I think he realized what he said was racist and sexist, and he put his head down and walked away. This is a microagression because what he said assumed the normal students were male and non-racialized, and women and racialized people were categorized as problems PGSS has to deal with.
4 years ago