Thursday, August 15, 2024
7:00-8:30 pm
ONLINE
See the ContinUUm for the link.

You are invited to participate in Understanding Microaggressions, an online discussion sponsored by the Racial Climate Coalition (RCC) on Thursday, August 15 from 7:00-8:30 pm. All are welcome – including those who attended the in-person discussion after the July 14 service and are interested in another opportunity to learn and reflect.

Racial microaggressions are “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of color”*. Microaggressions happen all the time in schools, the workplace, social interactions and at church (yes, they happen at PBUUC).

We will show a short video depicting microaggressions, talk about what they are, and consider what the experience is like for each of the parties involved (actor, person who experiences the microaggression, and bystander). Together we will explore how we want to be with each other when microaggressions occur at Paint Branch. There will be an opportunity for small group discussions in breakout rooms.

Let’s build community and a healthy racial climate at PBUUC.

For more information, contact Deb Rubenstein, RCC Facilitator, at RCC@pbuuc.org.

*Manning, Roxy; Peyton, Sarah. The Antiracist Heart: A SelfCompassion and Activism Handbook (p. 140). Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

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