Despite the recent explosion of research on microaggressions across multiple disciplines (mostly psychology, but also sociology, and more recently philosophy), there has been very little academic engagement with microaggression and disability. On the popular media front, it’s not much better. While some popular sites have arisen to track micro- aggressive comments experienced by people with disabilities, little has occurred beyond tracking the phenomenon. This is particularly unfortunate, because investigating microaggres- sion in the context of disability is poised to provide important insights about both disability and microaggression. There is a large swath of territory to plumb; this chapter is only going to reveal one small corner of that terrain. Our hope, however, is that the argument presented here will function like a small piece of a hologram (and to a certain degree like microaggressions themselves): as it is turned in different directions toward different readers, different insights available in interrogating mi- croaggression in the context of disability will reveal themselves. Our analysis is inspired by the fracas that arose around the second episode of the fourth Season of Net fix’s series Queer Eye, titled “Dis- abled But Not Really.” This case will help us to articulate two import- ant elements of microaggressions and to map the epistemic territory that polices the identity of disabled folks. Using this example, we will argue three things: frst, central to conceptualizing microaggressions is understanding their mixed legibility. By this, we mean to suggest that crucial to the way that microaggressions function is that they are poised to deliver different messages to different audiences or multi- tiered messages to general audiences. Second, this mixed legibility is what allows microaggressions to be leveraged as part of a complex epistemology of domination that takes advantage of various mecha- nisms/elements of epistemic oppression that are articulated in a grow- ing literature (see literature review in the introduction to this volume). Finally, exploring the terrain of ableist microaggressions most clearly reveals how they can serve as a tool for maintaining the oppressive 11 The Message in the Microaggression Epistemic Oppression at the Intersection of Disability and Race Jeanine Weekes Schroer and Zara Bain