AlterConf NYC 2016 - Dismantling the Binary, one Microaggression at a Time by Jameson Hampton
Channel: Alter Conf
Date: 2016-12-14

AlterConf NYC 2016 - Dismantling the Binary, one Microaggression at a Time by Jameson Hampton

Microaggressions. You know, the slights that sting but seem so small that you feel like you’re overreacting, even though they become more and more hurtful the more (dozens of) times you hear them?
This talk will make visible the microaggressions too regularly lobbed at non-binary people in tech, discuss how to combat them, and what self-care we can employ when on the receiving end.