My creative partner and I are launching an art project about identity, but we keep clashing over whether to use our 'professional' names or our family names, and it's making us realize we have completely different relationships to authenticity and audience.
More people experience this than they realize.
The challenge of aligning on authentic self-presentation when collaborators have different strategies for navigating professional and cultural identities.
“Where Are You with Name and identity across cultures?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.