I mean to say that these things are not *existentially* poisoned but the positionality of them, especially in the US, means their use is immoral
November 9, 2026 at 11:38 PM
I mean to say that these things are not *existentially* poisoned but the positionality of them, especially in the US, means their use is immoral
Being assigned matmul at birth really does seem to (on top of all else) come with most of the worst externally imposed aspects of trans positionality at this point in history. Every sympathy sincerely and truly offered! :(
November 9, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Being assigned matmul at birth really does seem to (on top of all else) come with most of the worst externally imposed aspects of trans positionality at this point in history. Every sympathy sincerely and truly offered! :(
like are you not embarrassed? 😭 (that would assume one be somewhat conscious of their positionality)
November 8, 2026 at 1:25 PM
like are you not embarrassed? 😭 (that would assume one be somewhat conscious of their positionality)
It's not a thing that makes one intellectually wrong, as long as you recognize that that's your positionality.
November 11, 2026 at 2:48 AM
It's not a thing that makes one intellectually wrong, as long as you recognize that that's your positionality.
yeah ive been neutral on it! i don't know how to explain this better to people yet but in a 2026 where even cis girls call themselves boys or boyish sometimes it feels very much like boy is a kind of nonbinary positionality sometimes associated with smth between negative androgyny & effeminization
November 6, 2026 at 8:36 PM
yeah ive been neutral on it! i don't know how to explain this better to people yet but in a 2026 where even cis girls call themselves boys or boyish sometimes it feels very much like boy is a kind of nonbinary positionality sometimes associated with smth between negative androgyny & effeminization
They keep imagining themselves as objective spectators inhabiting the view from nowhere, having access to the correct intuitions, whereas marginalized people are partial in virtue of their positionality.
Embarrassing and infuriating
Embarrassing and infuriating
November 6, 2026 at 11:27 AM
They keep imagining themselves as objective spectators inhabiting the view from nowhere, having access to the correct intuitions, whereas marginalized people are partial in virtue of their positionality.
Embarrassing and infuriating
Embarrassing and infuriating
Pundits seem particularly bad at self-reflection and self-knowledge. Maybe that's what makes you a "good" pundit? Old white pundit: "Privilege? Me? No way." OWP: "My perspective is created by my positionality and life experience? Nope, nope, nope. I'm the original typical human."
November 7, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Pundits seem particularly bad at self-reflection and self-knowledge. Maybe that's what makes you a "good" pundit? Old white pundit: "Privilege? Me? No way." OWP: "My perspective is created by my positionality and life experience? Nope, nope, nope. I'm the original typical human."
Like a bird viewing its nest from above, positionality shapes how we see, understand and relate to the world we study. Reflexivity invites us to question how our position shapes what we see, how we interpret it and the knowledge we produce.
#researchintegrity
#researchintegrity
November 11, 2026 at 10:07 AM
Like a bird viewing its nest from above, positionality shapes how we see, understand and relate to the world we study. Reflexivity invites us to question how our position shapes what we see, how we interpret it and the knowledge we produce.
#researchintegrity
#researchintegrity
but those contexts change endlessly and needs differ based on social positionality and a mindless replication obliterates this context.
to simply replicate without thought is to treat the history, people, and purpose as fundamentally irrelevant.
to simply replicate without thought is to treat the history, people, and purpose as fundamentally irrelevant.
November 8, 2026 at 6:16 AM
but those contexts change endlessly and needs differ based on social positionality and a mindless replication obliterates this context.
to simply replicate without thought is to treat the history, people, and purpose as fundamentally irrelevant.
to simply replicate without thought is to treat the history, people, and purpose as fundamentally irrelevant.
What does outsider positionality ask of the researcher? Tal Meler reflects on studying Arab women police officers across boundaries.
doi.org
November 11, 2026 at 7:05 PM
What does outsider positionality ask of the researcher? Tal Meler reflects on studying Arab women police officers across boundaries.
sometimes i type something like "i think thats one of my parts' fursonae" and then i think about that in juxtaposition with my, like, positionality. i didnt think i was allowed to be both of these things at once
November 10, 2026 at 1:29 AM
sometimes i type something like "i think thats one of my parts' fursonae" and then i think about that in juxtaposition with my, like, positionality. i didnt think i was allowed to be both of these things at once
Anyway the majority of critiques people level against AI are near-completely unrelated to the actual issues with it, and many of the actual issues people have with it are based primarily in petit bourgeoisie class politics and trying to defend their class positionality.
November 10, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Anyway the majority of critiques people level against AI are near-completely unrelated to the actual issues with it, and many of the actual issues people have with it are based primarily in petit bourgeoisie class politics and trying to defend their class positionality.
Insider and outsider are not fixed positions. Yemisi Sloane treats positionality as ongoing negotiation of power and vulnerability.
doi.org
November 9, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Insider and outsider are not fixed positions. Yemisi Sloane treats positionality as ongoing negotiation of power and vulnerability.
floored by this piece by Shirin Towfiq (shirintowfiq.com)
November 7, 2026 at 2:44 AM
floored by this piece by Shirin Towfiq (shirintowfiq.com)
but, also, in transmission, all of these practices mutated and evolved and answered the particularities of the present and of your social positionality.
to hold them fixed is to obliterate all of these things that made them important.
to hold them fixed is to obliterate all of these things that made them important.
November 8, 2026 at 6:16 AM
but, also, in transmission, all of these practices mutated and evolved and answered the particularities of the present and of your social positionality.
to hold them fixed is to obliterate all of these things that made them important.
to hold them fixed is to obliterate all of these things that made them important.
My existence in this social order from my positionality as someone whose survival it opposes at my every attempt to survive lets me know with total conviction that this order is unjust, I have the conviction god granted me life because I deserve to live. @noahfisk.bsky.social @tichatnwa.bsky.social
My state is one of constant rage at the word simply as my response to its severe oppression of me. Fighting for my life as a Black woman, from a Black girl child, coming to have to fight for my life as a mad person as my madness blossomed in maturity. Starving while others hoard. It radicalized me.
November 6, 2026 at 1:59 PM
My existence in this social order from my positionality as someone whose survival it opposes at my every attempt to survive lets me know with total conviction that this order is unjust, I have the conviction god granted me life because I deserve to live. @noahfisk.bsky.social @tichatnwa.bsky.social
damned if we do and damned if we don't just due to our positionality
November 3, 2026 at 10:58 PM
damned if we do and damned if we don't just due to our positionality
Dave Murray-Rust, Elisa Giaccardi, Federico Bomba, Maria Luce Lupetti: From Bias to Positionality: A critical grammar for Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.14079 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.14079 https://arxiv.org/html/2611.14079
November 11, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Dave Murray-Rust, Elisa Giaccardi, Federico Bomba, Maria Luce Lupetti: From Bias to Positionality: A critical grammar for Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.14079 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.14079 https://arxiv.org/html/2611.14079
Academic positionality
It is often not stated explicitly, but where we come from and what social groups we belong to shape what we study, research, and understand, and how we do so.
It is often not stated explicitly, but where we come from and what social groups we belong to shape what we study, research, and understand, and how we do so.
November 10, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Academic positionality
It is often not stated explicitly, but where we come from and what social groups we belong to shape what we study, research, and understand, and how we do so.
It is often not stated explicitly, but where we come from and what social groups we belong to shape what we study, research, and understand, and how we do so.
I'm so fucking stoked about Deb Haaland.
She's brilliant, insightful, kind and I'm excited for her to have the positionality to shine.
She's brilliant, insightful, kind and I'm excited for her to have the positionality to shine.
what is one result that is really resonating with you?
or the one moment from tonight that will really stick with you?
or the one moment from tonight that will really stick with you?
November 4, 2026 at 7:04 AM
I'm so fucking stoked about Deb Haaland.
She's brilliant, insightful, kind and I'm excited for her to have the positionality to shine.
She's brilliant, insightful, kind and I'm excited for her to have the positionality to shine.
Yeah, it seems like the charge of narcissism is an attempt to avoid dealing with positionality: hegemony introspecting is just inherently less interesting than every other perspective because we get so much hegemony blasted at us all the time already but never hear counter-hegemonic voices...
November 7, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Yeah, it seems like the charge of narcissism is an attempt to avoid dealing with positionality: hegemony introspecting is just inherently less interesting than every other perspective because we get so much hegemony blasted at us all the time already but never hear counter-hegemonic voices...
so when i read something transgender going on into a character in their textual positionality i'm much more inclined to and interested by "unfulfilled desire to transition" since there are so many characters who are circling around the fact that they need to change
November 3, 2026 at 8:07 PM
so when i read something transgender going on into a character in their textual positionality i'm much more inclined to and interested by "unfulfilled desire to transition" since there are so many characters who are circling around the fact that they need to change
New in Practice Journal - Nathan Douglas' article on “Reconceptualising researcher positionality: a dialogical approach to reflexivity.” Read the article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#QualitativeResearch #ResearchMethods
#QualitativeResearch #ResearchMethods
November 5, 2026 at 12:02 PM
New in Practice Journal - Nathan Douglas' article on “Reconceptualising researcher positionality: a dialogical approach to reflexivity.” Read the article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#QualitativeResearch #ResearchMethods
#QualitativeResearch #ResearchMethods
It's an essay I plan to submit for peer review that touches on researcher identities (positionality), the leaky pipeline, and an analysis of victims of political extremist violence. It's the most personal thing I've written under my legal name, and I would love some feedback before submitting.
November 10, 2026 at 8:05 PM
It's an essay I plan to submit for peer review that touches on researcher identities (positionality), the leaky pipeline, and an analysis of victims of political extremist violence. It's the most personal thing I've written under my legal name, and I would love some feedback before submitting.
Liberalism as positionality vs. liberalism as doctrine strikes again
One very funny ongoing thing in politics is Lib Dem voters are consistently slightly less socially liberal than Labour voters
Lol YouGov polled "Hang the peados, fund the NHS" and found it gets only 35%. But that's mainly because Reform voters don't want to fund the NHS.
November 2, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Liberalism as positionality vs. liberalism as doctrine strikes again