I wasn't able to participate in the poll, but I fee uncomfortable...there is so much I am still learning

Thank you for sharing Susan.

I agree with you Kyle!

It’s hidden

surprised!

I agree it’s subtle

It depends who I am engaging with at the time.

Same here, Kyle. I feel uncomfortable to talk about it unless I know a lot of it.

I have personally experienced a lot obliviousness at CCSF

Staff = all employees?

staff = classified

^^^

thx

Navy is 2 or more races?

Yes

classified staff look most like the students. Faculty do not look alike, administrators are also very different but are a much smaller sample.

I noticed the same thing Micheline

What was most shocking to me were the demographics of administrators; there is a lot of representation that is missing in our senior leadership

Dr. Lawless could you please talk more about respecting cultural norms vs. microaggressions.

Good question. Can you bring this up in the Q&A?

“What are you” is one I get and hear used quite a bit.

I get that too, Mitra

I get “Are you sure you’re Mexican?”

Yes! That too!

I get - you can't be latina because your name iisn't

Yes I get that when using married name...

I have been oblivious to any direct microaggression against me as young(er) black male English teacher; however, I am always scared of that students and colleagues when I falter, stumble, and have bad days.

that = how

I don’t like either one of those questions, where are you/what are you

Don’t call me “Maria” unless you and I are speaking Spanish

Thank you Dr. Chen...I struggled to articulate that message

The attempt of trying to be fair when that standard is very impossible to have.

Even in families!

Due to systemic micro aggression at city college, over time people who work here unconciously inherent these microagressions and continues this cycle

Our system, in many ways, privileges and protects those who enact micro aggressions leaving the burden to overcome them on the shoulders of those receiving the microaggressions.

The more I learn the more I feel this is the case Mitra.

Definitely acknowledge what has happened

Call out what you are observing in the chat at least

Why are you so frustrated? What is the intent of this your comment?

In this case I would shut down the chat (it’s like trolling) and ask people to a live conversation later

I would hope there would be a way to circle back and engage the perpetrator...sometimes I feel we are good at communicating in "safe" spaces about injustice but we never follow-up and engage the perpetrator

preemptive grounding in collective community standards? so that when participants mis-step, the response to address it can be anchored in how we are meeting or not meeting our community goals.

I like that idea, @Mitra

EFF often circles back to the rules of etiquette

Which would be the more appropriate public acknowledgement: “Please be respectful of the speaker, you are being rude” OR “Please be respectful of the speaker, you are committing a microaggression”?

I like Mitra’s idea too!

If a person has a heavy accent what would be the best way to communicate that without being insulting?

HUGE monolingual bias in the US!

@Alissa, good question. Labeling something a micro aggression is important in continued recognition and acknowledgement. Whereas “rude” is attributed to personal attack, micro aggression is evidence of larger social biases.

I assumed the example was from City College

@Yea-wen I appreciate encourage more reflection on our personal intention or angle when we want to call out difference...that really resonates with me

@Elizabeth, I hear that same experience from some of my students who are immigrants/second language learners: that strongly accented English is hard for them to understand. They do often have to switch teachers because it's too hard for them to understand. It used to make me feel really uncomfortable when my students would share that because it felt racist, but now I understand it.

Yes, please share the slide desk. Thank you.

@DC Benn checkout some cool resource from Amherst college:

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https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/chemistry/chemistry-equity-inclusion-and-anti-racism/chemistry-specific-resources

@Mitra, Thank you very much for the link!

You are very welcome!

How do you call it out when the person may have power over you?

The power dynamics can be real. It would be great if the pressure to mark incidents as racist/micro-aggressions didn’t fall on the shoulders of Diana alone.

There are so many times when I wished I had said, “wait a second. Something just happened here."

Thanks Nathan

Thank you very much!

Excellent point, Nathan.

Thank you. This was so useful. I’ve heard presentations on microagressions many time before, but hearing stories from my own campus and coworkers has really brought the message “home”

Diana, I want you to have support and allies.

Thank you very much Yea-Wen Chen and Brandi Lawless for this event, I learned so much. As ESL student is amazing to be able to understand what microaggression is. I am very interesting to learn more and be able to react in all situation. Thank you very much again!

Much appreciation Dr Chen and Dr Lawless for this enlightening talk! Looking forward to reading your new book. Thank you everyone for this important conversation!

“G” moment! Love that, Don

Many thanks Kyle for this outstanding equity talk!

Thank you!

Thanks all! Great presentation.

great webinar and discussion, thank you colleagues

Thank you Dr. Chen and Dr. Lawless for opening this space to talk about Microaggressions. As a ESL student is it crucial for me we acknowledge Microaggressions.

Thank you!!!

Thank you! Wonderful

Thank you all for this enlightening talk!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you Dr Chen and Dr lawless for an important talk!

Thank you!

Thank you so much!

Can we get the slide presentation?

Thanks Dr. Chen and Dr. Lawless.

FABULOUS!!!

Thank you for the great presentation. Have a great day, everyone.

thank you. it is a great help to be able to talk about.. it is great