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Table 1 Team members’ chosen demographic identifiers for this article

From: The generative potential of mess in community-based participatory research with young people who use(d) drugs in Vancouver

Name (YAC members' names are pseudonyms) 

Chosen demographic identifiers

Kendra

White woman, pansexual, harm reduction activist

Ocean

Woman who doesn't identify with specific pronouns or a single ethnicity, fallen through every crack in ‘the system,’ fighting to make the world a better place

Alanna

We lost touch with Alanna after she moved back to her parents’ home in the winter of 2019

Jordan

We lost touch with Jordan after he left Vancouver in the winter of 2018

Thorn

Indigenous person, IV meth user, harm reduction and youth drug user activist, peer worker

Raven

Cree Métis, Two-spirit person, former foster kid

Stan

White male, gay, demon, bold and unafraid to stand out

Kat

Métis woman, person in recovery, loved by family

Madison

White settler of European and South Asian heritage, cis woman, ally

Reith

White settler, cis woman, ally and activist

Danya

White settler, cis woman, mother, university professor