| Sumario: | 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 of the workshop, we engage in a collaborative autoethnography, reflecting upon some of the challenges of program development. We identify and explore three dialectical tensions in the process of collaboration: (1) independence and mutual dependence, (2) similarity and difference, and (3) openness and closedness. Finally, we examine the ways in which personal narrative can be a tool for campus dialogue, empowerment, and social change.
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