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When collaborative projects develop unspoken hierarchies

My friend and I have been working on this documentary for eight months and somewhere along the way it became her film with me as support, even though we started as equals. I keep showing up and doing the work but I've stopped bringing my real ideas because the dynamic has shifted and I don't know how to shift it back without seeming petty.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

An implicit power dynamic has emerged that contradicts your stated equality, creating resentment that undermines the work itself.

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