Davidson Microaggressions Project

Category: submission

Race & COVID White Privilege

I am shocked and disgusted by the amount of white Davidson students posting on social media, showing them and their friends drinking, celebrating, sitting by pools and on boats, and generally acting as if there is nothing else… Read More

Teaching & Research Expertise

I was hired to teach on a particular minority experience. Several seniors wrote theses squarely within my field of expertise. My colleagues who were teaching the senior colloquium apparently don’t think my expertise is necessary, because they never… Read More

Sports Team

My friend, [Asian woman], was walking up the hill from commons to the side of Belk when she heard a large group of guys who appeared to be wearing [sports team] attire. She recognized some of the guys… Read More

Medicated

After my personal issues became very public, I learned that those issues stemmed from untreated ADHD. My medication helps me feel happy, motivated, and in control of impulses. However, I’m afraid of what people will think of me… Read More

Racial Profiling?

As a staff member, I was told I was racial profiling someone because I was explaining the rules of a project to them that they didn’t like. Where is the line between insubordination and microaggression?

Ghost

It’s like I’m a Ghost.  I was working with two men and we were trying to figure out what time we had a shift change. We were sitting in a circle, all pretty evenly spaced out. I said that each… Read More

Most Guys

I was talking to a friend of mine about a time where an upperclassman male student said he wanted to go a meeting where a lot of freshman girls would be so that he could scout out which… Read More

Name Mistaken

In one of my classes, I was mistaken for the only other black woman in my class. This was done by a student when trying to reference a point I had brought up in the previous class discussion… Read More

Ex-Girlfriend

During my visits to the Davidson Student Counseling Center, I have brought up my ex-girlfriend, who happens to be trans. Because I started dating her before she came out as a trans woman, all three of the counselors… Read More

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