Mail Bag: Answering your questions

Issue 38: How to include people with 'invisible identities'; the benefits of social media; The Power of Us goes international

A few weeks ago, we wrote about trying to turn our newsletter into a more dynamic interaction with readers. To hear your questions and ideas, and engage more deeply. We have finally had time to go through some of the comments and questions we’ve received (please keep them coming!). We decided to lightly edit for clarity and brevity, as well as to keep senders anonymous.

I’m curious if you deal with heterogeneous group interactions anywhere in your work. What I mean by this is, for example, some groups are strongly organized around visual or ethnocultural markers of identity, while others are not. This is a problem when a society wants to help marginalized groups, but cannot because they are not visible as other groups are. I’d be very curious to hear your thoughts as this relates to us imagining a future and trying to craft new identities that can bind people together. —Charles

This is an important question and one that resonates with our own experience. For instance, Jay was a first ge…