Circling Back to You

by Julie Tieu

That was the aggravating thing about microaggressions. They had to be dealt with in the moment before they festered into more egregious behavior.

But feelings were complicated, harder to master than the analytical thinking she learned from her business courses. Emotions didn’t neatly follow an “if x, then y” logic. They were immeasurable, amorphous. At times, insurmountable.