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When community groups struggle with authentic name representation across cultures

Our community organizing group can't agree on whether to use English names or original names in our public materials when many of our immigrant members use different names in different contexts, and we're realizing we don't actually understand each other's relationship to our own names.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The complexity of honoring diverse naming practices when group members themselves navigate multiple identities across different cultural contexts.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Name and identity across cultures?”

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