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How to address power dynamics in social groups

Our book club started as a way for neighborhood moms to connect but it's become this weird social hierarchy where some people's opinions matter more than others and several members have quietly stopped coming. Those of us who are left keep pretending everything's fine but the whole thing feels hollow now.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The unexamined ways that social status recreates itself in supposedly egalitarian spaces is slowly poisoning the original intention of connection.

Ideas that help explain it
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