‘I’m Gonna Speak for Me’ I-Poems and the Situated Knowledges of Sex Workers

IF 0.7 Q4 SOCIAL WORK

Ethics and Social Welfare Pub Date : 2022-03-13 DOI:10.1080/17496535.2022.2042039

M. Buckridge, Jules Lowman, C. Leon

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In academic and political spaces, as well as in the dominant culture in the United States, sex workers are granted little authority, and their lived experiences are not privileged as a form of valuable knowledge. As feminist scholars, we seek to counter this pattern by highlighting the situated knowledges and agency of sex workers in the United States. To do so, we share the words of sex workers through I-poems. I-poems are a form of poetic inquiry and a method for qualitative research analysis. As a form of found poetry, these poems are constructed using only the words of the participants. Unlike prior scholars, we use focus groups that capture conversation about people involved in street-based sex work rather than individual interviews. By centering the participants’ own words, we hope to moderate our influence as researchers on the presentation of data.

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“我要为自己说话”——《诗与性工作者的情境知识》

在学术和政治空间中，以及在美国的主流文化中，性工作者被授予很少的权威，他们的生活经验也没有作为一种有价值的知识形式而享有特权。作为女权主义学者，我们试图通过强调美国性工作者的知识和代理来对抗这种模式。为此，我们通过I-poems分享性工作者的话语。我诗是诗歌探究的一种形式，是质性研究分析的一种方法。作为一种发现的诗歌形式，这些诗歌只使用参与者的话语来构建。与之前的学者不同，我们使用焦点小组来捕捉有关参与街头性工作的人的谈话，而不是单独采访。通过以参与者自己的话为中心，我们希望缓和我们作为研究人员对数据呈现的影响。

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Ethics and Social Welfare SOCIAL WORK-

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