Beyond Making a Statement: An Intersectional Framing of the Power and Possibilities in Positioning

In this essay, two women of Color researchers examine the intersections of race and disability and ask, ?What is the power and purpose of positioning and positionality statements?? Informed by Black feminist theory, and drawing from the DisCrit tenets of intersectional oppressions, historicity, and whiteness and ability as property, the authors focus on researchers? positioning in relation to how they engage and communicate knowledge about multiply marginalized people.