Creating Safe Places: A Collaborative Autoethnography on LGBT Social Activism

摘要: This essay examines the process of developing Safe Zones, an interactive workshop designed to educate students about issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. As co-facilitators workshop, we engage in a collaborative autoethnography, reflecting upon some challenges program development. We identify explore three dialectical tensions collaboration: (1) independence mutual dependence, (2) similarity difference, (3) openness closedness. Finally, examine ways which personal narrative can be tool for campus dialogue, empowerment, social change.