My research collaborator and I are studying social justice issues but we've never talked about how our different class backgrounds shape our analysis and I keep noticing moments where they theorize things I've lived through. Our academic partnership feels extractive in ways I can't name cleanly.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two collaborators studying inequality are reproducing it in microcosm within their own working relationship, with lived experience being theorized rather than centered.
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Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.
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