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
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)
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."
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.
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
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.
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
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)
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
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
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.
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.
glad that i've kind of gotten over it and accepted that it makes sense to think of myself as meaningfully having female sociobiological positionality but i was posting great here for a few months
evidently according to your model sensitive gay boys often benefit from being castrated. why don't you want them to be? are you homophobic or something?
November 4, 2026 at 12:08 AM
glad that i've kind of gotten over it and accepted that it makes sense to think of myself as meaningfully having female sociobiological positionality but i was posting great here for a few months
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
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...
i don't know for sure your positionality, but maybe be careful about that "we"
November 5, 2026 at 5:26 AM
i don't know for sure your positionality, but maybe be careful about that "we"
What kind of conditions Finnish teacher education holds for promoting awareness on Sámi peoples? Do they support teachers in becoming more than 'perfect strangers' to the Sámi?
🔍 Our new article explores these questions. Out now (open access!) @tandfresearch.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0031...
🔍 Our new article explores these questions. Out now (open access!) @tandfresearch.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0031...
Of distress and distance: tracing the perfect stranger positionality on indigenous issues in Finnish teacher education
As Sámi truth and reconciliation efforts bring attention to Indigenous issues in the Nordic countries, teacher education (TE) emerges as a key forum for promoting knowledge and better majority–Sámi...
doi.org
November 6, 2026 at 11:54 AM
What kind of conditions Finnish teacher education holds for promoting awareness on Sámi peoples? Do they support teachers in becoming more than 'perfect strangers' to the Sámi?
🔍 Our new article explores these questions. Out now (open access!) @tandfresearch.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0031...
🔍 Our new article explores these questions. Out now (open access!) @tandfresearch.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0031...
Good point with which I agree. Genuine inclusion is respecting the positionality, possibilities, and expertise of all, while bringing this together for a collaborative endeavour where all feel they are considered and valued. #lthechat
November 4, 2026 at 8:12 PM
Good point with which I agree. Genuine inclusion is respecting the positionality, possibilities, and expertise of all, while bringing this together for a collaborative endeavour where all feel they are considered and valued. #lthechat
I find this .. uncomfortably shallow
not because I disagree but because once again the deep complexity of gender and race, is presented as a simple moral “truth” of now
Rather than a long standing soup of positionality .
And how this reductionist view gives these wreckers loaded guns
not because I disagree but because once again the deep complexity of gender and race, is presented as a simple moral “truth” of now
Rather than a long standing soup of positionality .
And how this reductionist view gives these wreckers loaded guns
"Stevens, in joining Rogers, has allied herself with this odious culture war, one that is itself tied to a very real war. The campaign of hate, of which El-Sayed is the latest victim, has a simple goal: to render Muslims and Arabs more killable."
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Haley Stevens and a “Violent, Chauvinist Power”
Stevens’s defection from the Democratic vote isn’t a story about party intrigue. It is a story about Stevens waking up and choosing violence. In supporting Mike Rogers, she has allied herself with an ...
www.vanityfair.com
November 3, 2026 at 3:59 PM
I find this .. uncomfortably shallow
not because I disagree but because once again the deep complexity of gender and race, is presented as a simple moral “truth” of now
Rather than a long standing soup of positionality .
And how this reductionist view gives these wreckers loaded guns
not because I disagree but because once again the deep complexity of gender and race, is presented as a simple moral “truth” of now
Rather than a long standing soup of positionality .
And how this reductionist view gives these wreckers loaded guns
Terms like “g-hole” and “safe spaces” do methodological work. Georgios Chatzichristos traces positionality in DFSA research.
doi.org
November 5, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Terms like “g-hole” and “safe spaces” do methodological work. Georgios Chatzichristos traces positionality in DFSA research.
Positionality isn’t a statement you write once. This paper compares fieldwork in Lagos and London to show how trust, access and identity shift between settings, and why shared identity doesn’t settle the politics of fieldwork. ethicsresource.ringsgenderresearch.org/resource/bey... #SciComms
November 3, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Positionality isn’t a statement you write once. This paper compares fieldwork in Lagos and London to show how trust, access and identity shift between settings, and why shared identity doesn’t settle the politics of fieldwork. ethicsresource.ringsgenderresearch.org/resource/bey... #SciComms
#OpenAccess from our latest issue -
“When and Where [We] Enter…”? Intersectional Ideologies and Experiences in African American Support for LGBTQ+ Communities - cup.org/4bGS42n
- Monique L. Lyle & Todd C. Shaw
“When and Where [We] Enter…”? Intersectional Ideologies and Experiences in African American Support for LGBTQ+ Communities - cup.org/4bGS42n
- Monique L. Lyle & Todd C. Shaw
November 4, 2026 at 12:20 PM
#OpenAccess from our latest issue -
“When and Where [We] Enter…”? Intersectional Ideologies and Experiences in African American Support for LGBTQ+ Communities - cup.org/4bGS42n
- Monique L. Lyle & Todd C. Shaw
“When and Where [We] Enter…”? Intersectional Ideologies and Experiences in African American Support for LGBTQ+ Communities - cup.org/4bGS42n
- Monique L. Lyle & Todd C. Shaw
[reflecting on the last uni semester, positionality]
something i've come away with after my last semester of uni is how much positionality matters. who you are matters a lot for the things you say and what you believe. more than anybody wants to believe, their opinions and worldview are shaped […]
something i've come away with after my last semester of uni is how much positionality matters. who you are matters a lot for the things you say and what you believe. more than anybody wants to believe, their opinions and worldview are shaped […]
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November 7, 2026 at 12:32 AM
[reflecting on the last uni semester, positionality]
something i've come away with after my last semester of uni is how much positionality matters. who you are matters a lot for the things you say and what you believe. more than anybody wants to believe, their opinions and worldview are shaped […]
something i've come away with after my last semester of uni is how much positionality matters. who you are matters a lot for the things you say and what you believe. more than anybody wants to believe, their opinions and worldview are shaped […]