Fill in your identity for each of the categories listed. In the inner circle, record the identities that are the most important or salient to you. In the outer circle, record the identities that are less important or salient to you.

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Questions

1. Which aspects of your social identity feel especially meaningful to you and why?

2. Which aspects of your social identity don’t feel as meaningful to you and why?

3. Are there any that you hadn’t thought of before today, and if so, why do you think that is?

4. What experiences have you had that make the identities in your inner circle more salient to you? Why do you think more about some of your identities than others?

5. Which identities have the strongest effect on how others perceive you?

Source: Arizona State University, AAUW Diversity and Inclusion Tool Kit, Handout: Social Identity Wheel Activity