The National Institutes of Health awarded the University of Miami $2.2 million to study the effects of “microaggressions” on “black gay women” living with HIV, according to a list of grants reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. gave money.

The project is called “Monitoring Microaggressions and Adversity to Generate Interventions for Change” (MMAGIC), where “microaggressions” are defined as “routine and subtle insults through comments, jokes and actions.” and health effects. $2.2 million will be spent on face-to-face interviews with HIV-infected black gay women asking them about their experiences with “microaggressions” and “discrimination” and “how they are coping with these experiences.” The grant description reads:.

“Despite their frequency and potential importance, microaggressions have been largely ignored in the scientific literature on black women living with HIV,” the grant description said. Black women with HIV “live in a social fabric where multiple identities intersect and take daily toll,” the description reads.

The grant is being used by Sanisha Dale, associate professor of psychology who chairs the Department of Psychology’s Diversity and Equity Committee. According to the University of Miami website.

“When we started this study, the novel coronavirus and the death of George Floyd weren’t part of the equation, but they unfortunately show how systems of marginalization affect the health of black women living with HIV. It fit the whole question of what kind of impact it would have,” Dale said. university newspaper.

The MMAGIC program was originally funded by the NIH in 2019, according to the university.

“[Microaggressions] It could be someone saying, ‘She doesn’t look like she’s tested positive,’ as if HIV had a face,” Dale continued. “Or say, ‘I’m HIV-negative, I’m clean,’ as if the other person was dirty. (Related: Report: School Board Cancels Job Offer After Superintendent Candidate Commits ‘Microaggression’ | The Daily Caller)

The University of Miami and the Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s requests for comment.

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