With a focus on microaggressions, the purpose of this photo series was to provide a glimpse of the marginalized experience on SUNY Fredonia's campus. I wanted to show how these comments create uncomfortable and unsafe realities for the lives of students in their educational environment. Microaggressions are verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities that are usually done in an indirect, subtle, or unintentional way that discriminates against members of an underrepresented group. For many of us, microaggressions are said to us on a daily basis. Although they usually aren’t intended to hurt and bother us, microaggressions do in fact affect us in negative ways. Sadly, hearing microaggressions have become a daily, weekly, and monthly thing for many students and faculty/staff at Fredonia. This issue doesn’t only happen on Fredonia's campus, but it also happens worldwide. Hoping that this sparks difficult but well needed conversations, I thought it would be a great idea to use photography to address this issue. Each person in this series has written down a microaggression that was addressed to them.
