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45 microaggressions experienced by BIPOC academics. A thread. 
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1. Assuming your work is not good enough because you don’t quote Foucault/Bourdieu/elderly male white scholar.
2. Supervisors and coworkers forgetting to tell you important decisions. #AcademicTwitter
2. Supervisors and coworkers forgetting to tell you important decisions. #AcademicTwitter
3. Mispronouncing your name/religion/language/ethnicity despite numerous pronunciation explanations.
4. Asking if they can call you a nickname instead.
5. Confusing you for another person of your ethnicity. #AcademicTwitter
4. Asking if they can call you a nickname instead.
5. Confusing you for another person of your ethnicity. #AcademicTwitter
6. Being told that you “look like a student.”
7. Being told that you’re “so articulate.”
8. Disregarding your religious or cultural holidays. #AcademicTwitter
7. Being told that you’re “so articulate.”
8. Disregarding your religious or cultural holidays. #AcademicTwitter
9. Assuming you were born in a foreign country.
10. Being mistaken for custodial staff.
11. Asking you why you’re “so sensitive.” #AcademicTwitter
10. Being mistaken for custodial staff.
11. Asking you why you’re “so sensitive.” #AcademicTwitter
12. Often interrupted while you’re working with small requests (photocopier help/directions/setting up for meetings/etc).
13. Assuming that you are oppressed by your family/culture/community if you identify as a woman. #AcademicTwitter
13. Assuming that you are oppressed by your family/culture/community if you identify as a woman. #AcademicTwitter
14. All of your professors/fellow faculty/sr. admin are white.
15. Promoting white people with less academic experience over you.
16. Speaking louder at you when you ask them to clarify something. #AcademicTwitter
15. Promoting white people with less academic experience over you.
16. Speaking louder at you when you ask them to clarify something. #AcademicTwitter
17. Viewed as problematic and/or ignored when you make a complaint.
18. Trying to set you up with someone of your own race/ethnicity/religion.
19. Claiming that they understand racial oppression because they are a woman. #AcademicTwitter
18. Trying to set you up with someone of your own race/ethnicity/religion.
19. Claiming that they understand racial oppression because they are a woman. #AcademicTwitter
20. Qualifying themselves by telling you they have several friends of your race/ethnicity/religion.
21. Assuming you did not get funding/scholarship/job opportunity etc because you’re not qualified enough. #AcademicTwitter
21. Assuming you did not get funding/scholarship/job opportunity etc because you’re not qualified enough. #AcademicTwitter
22. Saying “I would have never guessed you were an anthropologist/scientist/professor/etc.”
23. Asking you why you’re so angry when you state your opinion.
24. Expecting you to represent your ethnicity or religion. #AcademicTwitter
23. Asking you why you’re so angry when you state your opinion.
24. Expecting you to represent your ethnicity or religion. #AcademicTwitter
25. Complimenting you on your English.
26. Being surprised when you publish an article/defend your dissertation/win a grant/get promoted/achieve tenure etc.
27. Policing your tone. #AcademicTwitter
26. Being surprised when you publish an article/defend your dissertation/win a grant/get promoted/achieve tenure etc.
27. Policing your tone. #AcademicTwitter
28. Discouraging you from conducting research in your own community.
29. Denying your experience (“Well that’s not what I experienced”/”But Karen is nice to me”).
30. Using inappropriate humour about your ethnicity/religion/food/clothing/etc. #AcademicTwitter
29. Denying your experience (“Well that’s not what I experienced”/”But Karen is nice to me”).
30. Using inappropriate humour about your ethnicity/religion/food/clothing/etc. #AcademicTwitter
31. Being told that you’re intimidating when you state your critical analysis.
32. Assuming you know that one acquaintance of theirs that has the same ethnicity/religion/race.
33. Assuming that you’re in the wrong room or lost. #AcademicTwitter
32. Assuming you know that one acquaintance of theirs that has the same ethnicity/religion/race.
33. Assuming that you’re in the wrong room or lost. #AcademicTwitter
34. Frequently being asked to take notes or make coffee at meetings.
35. Inappropriate violation of personal space/touching.
36. Excluding you from emails about job opportunities, funding, get-togethers, calls for papers, conference calls, etc. #AcademicTwitter
35. Inappropriate violation of personal space/touching.
36. Excluding you from emails about job opportunities, funding, get-togethers, calls for papers, conference calls, etc. #AcademicTwitter
37. Refusing to have weekly socials anywhere other than a pub/drinking establishment.
38. Using the phrase “your people.”
39. Interrupting you when speaking.
40. Being passed over for panels, keynotes, talks, etc for a white scholar who knows less about the topic than you do.
38. Using the phrase “your people.”
39. Interrupting you when speaking.
40. Being passed over for panels, keynotes, talks, etc for a white scholar who knows less about the topic than you do.
41. Asking you to pick up food for meetings/events/etc from a restaurant serving food from your ethnic background.
42. Assuming you haven't done enough research when quoting the work from scholars that share your race/ethnicity/religious background. #AcademicTwitter
42. Assuming you haven't done enough research when quoting the work from scholars that share your race/ethnicity/religious background. #AcademicTwitter
43. Assuming you are an immigrant.
44. Moderator ignores you/skips over you at meetings.
45. Assuming you only have expertise in your own ethnicity/race/religion and not your field in general. #AcademicTwitter
44. Moderator ignores you/skips over you at meetings.
45. Assuming you only have expertise in your own ethnicity/race/religion and not your field in general. #AcademicTwitter
