Guilaine Kinouani posted this infographic "The risks of naming micro-aggressions (or micro-violence) in white workplaces (macro/structural-violence)."

It can serve as a guide to white people who want to do better and POC who are doubting what they're living through. imho it applies to many other situations, including here.

https://twitter.com/KGuilaine/status/1005532043722272768

#racism #MicroAggressions #MacroAggressions #MicroViolence #MacroViolence #workplace

*image description in the toots below

The graphic is black and white, illustration in black with black writing on white background. There’s a watermark directing to the author’s website: racereflections.co.uk. The graphic shows the following situations, written in a circular way, with double ended arrows hinting that each situation is related to another. Reading clockwise, the situations are: 1/

1. illustration of a person with an afro).
SUBTLE VIOLENCE: A person of colour (POC) experiences a micro-aggression. They spend a significant amount of time distressed and/or confused deciding whether they did in fact experience violence and/or whether to name it.

2/

2. on the micro-violence end (right)

Illustration: portrait view of a white person with neck-length hair and an afro-wearing black person. Below:

NAMING: The POC may finally decide it was indeed racial violence, attempt to speak out and, to share their experience with their white colleague.