Being disbelieved because of who you are is its own distinct kind of harm

Miranda Fricker named two related wrongs: testimonial injustice, where someone's word is given less credibility because of prejudice about their social identity, and hermeneutical injustice, where someone lacks the shared concepts to even make sense of their own experience because they've been excluded from shaping the language. Both, she argued, are harms to a person specifically as a knower.

— Miranda Fricker, Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing — Oxford University Press, 2007
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