What I found really fascinating in the White-Knuckle Research piece was how the rituals and tropes of rapport building fall apart when it comes to research on individuals and communities with outrageous or repugnant views. Is it possible to establish trust without establishing a common ground? What does trust even look like in the context of that relationship?

Writing on the Margins raised good points about gatekeepers and whether limiting access is a tool for protecting vulnerable individuals or a means of marginalizing them further. These questions were particularly interesting given our previous conversations on privilege. Research affords privileged access to people and information – a license to move in and out of lives, to ask personal —even impertinent — questions. What do we owe in return for that privilege?