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Scenario

When Pacific teams struggle to balance cultural authenticity with mainstream advocacy

Our Pacific community center staff team is planning Pride month programming and we can't agree on how to present Pacific gender traditions alongside mainstream LGBTQ+ advocacy - some of us feel like we're being asked to translate our culture for outsiders while others see it as important visibility work. The deadline is approaching and we're still debating.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group faces tension between preserving cultural specificity and participating in broader movements for gender diversity acceptance.

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 Pacific gender diversity?”

Peri

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