Week 4-MICRO AGGRESSION EXPERIENCES

My micro aggression experience happened quite a few years ago. I was asked to help with the choir at church because they had a cantata engagement and the choir director was not able to assist. I decided to help, but I was not married at the time. I helped and everything came out more than what persons had expected. I married my long term friend and the father of my first child the following year. I decided that I would try and have my second child as soon as possible because I did not want any children in my thirties. Even though my husband objected I became pregnant. I was astonished when persons in the same choir that I helped so well made very insinuating remarks to my parents, myself and even wrote a letter to my father, that the only reason I married because I had become pregnant and so I needed to cover up for my sins. I found the entire situation really offensive but I made it pass because I knew the same people I helped were just being vindictive and wicked. The second mircro aggression happened this week when I decided to start looking around for secondary schools for my daughter. When I mentioned a particular school to my fried she simply looked at me and said ‘only students of certain sexual orientation attends this school.’ My step daughter attended this secondary school and I know she is not a lesbian.