I’ve been a fan of  The Microaggressions Project for some time, and when they put out a call for assistance in redesigning their site, I volunteered. Their site is essentially a blog of user-submitted posts detailing microaggressions, which were described by American psychiatrist Chester M. Pierce as:

brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of other races

Microaggressions, however, are not limited to race and can be perpetuated due to gender, sexual orientation and ability as well. It’s an important project, and a revealing one.

Today I launched their new site, and on the surface it looks very similar to their previous one. However, moving from Tumblr to WordPress has given the team a blog separate from the microaggressions posts to discuss other content. The submission and publishing process has also been streamlined (I used and highly recommend the Gravity Forms plugin).

The trickiest part of the redesign was migrating the 2,000+ Tumblr posts over to WordPress. Thankfully there are free tools like Tumblr2WordPress around.

I hope the new platform and site will help The Microaggressions Project grow and reach a broader audience. Check it out if you haven’t already!