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Our Allyship Stories

Each story offers a unique perspective on allyship as participants answer a series of questions based on one of five potential topics.

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Story Questions

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               What is Allyship?                                                                                              

  1. How do you personally define allyship?

  2. In your opinion, how does allyship differ from courtesy? 

  3. What would make someone a great ally to you?

  4. In your opinion, what would be the most impactful thing an ally could do?

  5. In your opinion, what would make someone an ineffective or inauthentic ally?

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               What is challenging about Allyship?                                                       

  1. What contributes most to you not acting as an ally?

  2. In support of which communities do you feel the least likely to act and why?

  3. How do you most often express your allyship and towards whom?

  4. What most contributes to your ability to act as an ally? 

  5. In support of which communities do you feel most able to act as an ally and why?

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               What does Allyship look like in my life?                                                

  1. Who do you trust the most and what do they do to engender that trust?

  2. How do you think someone can best build back trust once it has been broken?

  3. How has the responsibility you feel to act as an ally changed over time and what led to those attitudes changing the most?

  4. In what ways do you feel you have experienced unearned advantages or disadvantages in life?

  5. In what ways do you feel your identities help or hurt your ability to be an effective ally?

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               Why does Allyship matter?                                                                          

  1. How do you define social courage?

  2. In what ways do you feel most comfortable exhibiting social courage and in front of which audiences?

  3. What has most contributed to your ability to demonstrate social courage?

  4. What is an example of an instance in which you feel you exhibited a high degree of social courage?

  5. What is the most socially courageous thing you think you could do and why?

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               How can I grow as an Ally?                                                                            

  1. How does your knowledge about social justice issues help or hurt your ability to be an effective ally?

  2. How do you feel you became knowledgeable about those social justice issues which matter the most to you?

  3. What would most help you be a better ally?

  4. To whom do you think you could be a better ally and what steps will you take to realize this potential? 

  5. ​How has the responsibility you feel to act as an ally changed over time and what led to those attitudes changing the most?

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