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Researcher, researched
October 16, 2004
For the past bunch of years, I’ve been in positions that have made people want to interview me, and I’ve been in commmunities that are considered research-worthy. At first I found this wildly exciting - I’m important, people are interested in my voice. But I quickly realized that especially in the world of sex, people who research sexual communities and come from “the outside” (from a differen suexual perspective) usually have their biases. Of course this is true of all researchers, but biases against sexual issues are somehow different, almost more buried in a way. This knowledge has just made me wary, it hasn’t made me want to stop being an interviewee and opening myself to help other people understand sex better. But I’m cautious.
Yesterday, I started an interviewing project for school, which is great fun even though it has nothing to do with sex. But suddenly, I was on the other side of this thing. Suddenly I was beeing treated with caution, suspiciously, like I have a good chance of misunderstanding or using my interviewee’s words for evil.
It’s good to see both sides of the coin. This makes me a better interviewer and a better interviewee.
Posted by Dacia at October 16, 2004 09:57 AM
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