Definition of "microaggress"
microaggress
verb
third-person singular simple present microaggresses, present participle microaggressing, simple past and past participle microaggressed
(intransitive) To perform one or more acts of microaggression.
Quotations
Heterosexuals may also deny that they themselves could ever be heterosexist, stating such claims as, "I'm not homophobic, I have a gay friend." . . [I]t sends a message to the individual that she cannot confront this person when he or she microaggresses.
2011, Kevin L. Nadal et al., "Gender, Racial, and Sexual Orientation Microagressions" in Women as Transformational Leaders (Michele A. Paludi and Breena E. Coates, eds.), p. 15 (Google preview)
“I microaggress all the time. You microaggress all the time. Even people of colour microaggress all the time,” she said.
2014 February 18, Graeme Hamilton, “McGill student forced to apologize for racial ‘microaggression’ after emailing joke Obama clip”, in National Post, Canada, retrieved 23 February 2014
(transitive) To perform one or more acts of microaggression directed at (someone).
Quotations
People who are minorities because of physical characteristics such as gender, skin color or age are more often subjected to microaggressions, but most of us have been microaggressed at some point.
2012, Ranna Parekh MD, Carl C. Bell MD, with Karen Weintraub, Overcoming Prejudice at Work (e-book), harvardhealthbooks.org ch. 1 (Google view)
However, the privileged kids studying oppression for the first time who derail the class for a half hour every session may leave the more marginalized folks in the room feeling unfulfilled, if not constantly microaggressed.
2012 December 6, “We Are the Subjects: Academia for Multiply Marginalized People”, in Black, Broken & Bent, retrieved 23 February 2014