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Scenario

When organizing partners from different cultural backgrounds clash over political strategy

My organizing partner and I come from different immigration backgrounds and we're trying to build coalition around housing justice, but we keep hitting walls where my approach feels too radical to her community and her strategies feel like they're reinforcing systems that hurt mine. We both want the same outcome but we're stuck in this pattern where we're fighting about tactics instead of figuring out how to bridge what our different communities actually need.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people committed to the same cause are discovering that their different cultural relationships to power and change create seemingly incompatible approaches to shared political work.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Political identity across cultures?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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