Black Business and Professional Association / Toronto Metropolitan University's Diversity Institute: The Micropedia of Microaggressions

Black Business and Professional Association, a non-profit organisation, increased awareness of microaggressions and encouraged behaviour change in Canada by launching the first encyclopaedia of microaggressions.

Campaign Summary

Not all acts of bias are easy to see or identify. Some of them are so subtle, they're only felt. Those subtle but painful interactions are known as microaggressions and they have a significant impact on peoples' physical and mental health. To help raise self-awareness around this issue, Canada's largest Diversity, Equity and Inclusion organizations (Black Business & Professional Association, Canadian Congress on Inclusive Diversity & Workplace Equity, Pride at Work, and the Diversity Institute), launched The Micropedia, the first encyclopedia of microaggressions.

Found at TheMicropedia.org, the judgement-free online tool provides easy-to-digest information where people can...

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