This activity was designed to help you explore your own personal, place-based, and social identities.

Please complete all parts of the Identities worksheet (Editable pdf). *

*Click the above link; it will then open a preview page. Click the link again and the file will download to your computer where you can use it and save it.

Your responses on this worksheet are private. You will not be sharing this worksheet with anyone else, although you will discuss your insights generated by this activity during the synchronous workshop.

Exploring the Complexity of Identities

The Identities Worksheet was designed as an activity to encourage you to reflect on the relationships between your personal, place-based, and social identities.

You may have realized some aspects of our identities can’t be hidden, and some can’t be changed. This is especially important when considering which aspects of our identities are more valued in our communities and which aspects are socially more marginalized. As people with many social identities, we sometimes find ourselves as members of dominant, more powerful groups and sometimes as members of groups that are more marginalized; these experiences of dominance and marginalization can also occur simultaneously.