Rangatahi pūrākau
These pūrākau are from some of the rangatahi interviews. They address challenges that can arise in a journey to becoming a sexual being. Each is followed by enquiry questions taken from the research interviews, these are designed support you to reflect on how they relate to people, how unhelpful ideas about gender and sexuality can impact them, and how they can create new ways of being and becoming sexual.
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Jamie's Story
Jamie has noticed that the way they are with their friends is very different to the way they are with their family. At home, they wear specific types of clothing and do specific types of behaviours that their parents expect from them. With friends, however, they feel more comfortable experimenting with the clothing they wear, the way they do things, with the people they talk to and the way they talk about their body.
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Where do you feel most comfortable being yourself?
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How do your experiences change in the different spaces you move through?
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Do you notice any differences in how your friends, parents or grandparents talk about gender?
