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Say WHAT?: Microaggressions in Yoga Spaces

Trolls on my Instagram  are constantly telling me that i DoNt ExPeRIeNcE rAcIsM. 🙄🙄🙄I don’t often respond, because I know their interpretation of power based violence is on the macro level, and not micro. And I don’t have the time to teach people who wish to be ignorant to the truth. However -Microaggressions exist. But, these every day slights can make you feel like you are imagining things and making things up because they can be hard to "prove." Here's the official definition by one of the legends in the microaggressions game, Dr. Derald Wing Sue: MICROAGGRESSIONS are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target...

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