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Post: Questions to WGSS Scholars

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Where is the line between savior complex (Savage, Victim, Savior) and humanitarian aid?
When can violence be a reasonable justification for peace? For bigger causes?
Can damage (resulting from WGSS research) be completely avoided?
Ex. Coming into a society with the intention of juicing information that would be useful then stepping back
into the comfort zone
How can we navigate collective responsibility of a cause whilst acknowledging different positionalities?
Are different positionalities helpful or harmful/ dividing in a feminist movement?
How can white feminism be an ally for other types of feminism without *naturally* appropriating it?
How can we know that ideas affected by WGSS scholars results are not merely rebellious actions against
the homogenous mainstream society? (paraphrase)
When are the ideas of the groups within a general positionality violating another persons rights within
another positionality?
When is that violation necessary? Is it necessary?
When is WGSS research violating a communitys authentic and transparent relationships within?
When is breaking that silence in a community and highlighting the violations necessary?
(Follow up) Do we have a responsibility to highlight violations and injustices even if the communities are
happy?
Who should do research? When? How? *the politics of research*
What does the inequality within the scholar community looks like?
Does any of the topics the scholars are focusing on perpetuating injustices?
What is the best way to approach research by a scholar with a complex intersectionality? How can we do
our intersectionality and current positionality justice?
How can scholars approach research in an unbiased or at least balanced way, considering the biases
existing within their positionality?
Field research as means of further oppression? *exploitation of the researched*
Could scholars with conflicting or perhaps even opposite intersectionalities create a fair/balanced/
unbiased/ inclusive research?
(Post-scholarly work) How can researchers and scholars apply/utilize their results beyond their current
work?