Interview
The Rap: ‘The Invisibility Of Microaggressions’ With Dr Gatwiri The perpetrator [.] performs it as a joke or compliment [.] then the burden of interpretation is on the recipient. Because of the constant patterns of gaslighting, you end up doubting your experiences – Dr Kathomi Gatwiri
Dr Kathomi Gatwiri is an award-winning trauma and race researcher, senior academic at Southern Cross University and founder of
On this week s summer edition of
The Rap, Dr Gatwiri joins fill-in presenters Bez Zewdie and Jim Malo to chat about her recent study
Workplace racism invalidates black peopleâs competency and puts white expertise as standard of best practice
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By Kathomi Gatwiri
Highly skilled Black African professionals report experiences of racial micro-aggressions at work are common and are expressed in a variety of ways. My recent study published in the British Journal of Social Work has found workplaces can be âbattlegrounds for racismâ.
Micro-aggressions are defined as: brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioural and environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights ⦠(are) put-downs, or a pattern of disrespect.
Racial micro-aggressions in the workplace generally take covert or subtle forms and may be conceptualised as âeverydayâ or âpassiveâ racism that serve to invalidate or inferiorise the expertise of black people while positioning white expertise as the standard of âbest practiceâ.
What do you mean with that?
Nic the NZer …
The virus mutates meaning its specific RNA sequence can change when it reproduces. But hopefully the vacine still works for new mutated virus strains.
This doesn t have to be true however. Flu vacines for example don t seem to handle a wide range of flu variants.
Andre …
There was nothing intended to be about other illnesses in what I wrote. Sacha and Nic both picked up where I explained the control group got something else other than the vaccine that might have more side effects that a pure placebo, which is why I didn t want to use placebo for what was given to the group. But what was given to the control group was different for the different trials. Hence the reason for using the words something else .
Written By: lprent - Date published: 10:43 pm, January 11th, 2021 - 22 comments
In September there was a 18 hour flight Dubai that ended in Auckland. A relatively close group on that plane showed infection after arrival, and a genetically similar version. The evidence of in-flight infection is very strong and points to the on-going issues with shipping virus hosts around the world. This has some pretty strong implications for long-haul flights in particular. But also to the risks of having travel ‘bubbles’ without enforced quarantine.
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