Drawing from my analysis of sex worker and homeless protests as well as my experience doing ethnographic research with people experiencing homelessness and people in the sex trade, I put forth recommendations for ethical, policy-relevant research with groups of people who experience routine, normalized violence, and who are frequently silenced and misrepresented by academics and policy makers. This article analyzes protests against what activists identify as oppressive knowledge production by “outsiders” who are not sex workers or homeless. Protest events against research “about us without us” occurred between 2012 and 2015, and targeted academic researchers and policymakers. I draw lessons from marginalized groups’ protests against knowledge production by outsider “experts” to present three problems with traditional poverty research: pathologization, paternalism, and extractive exotification. I use my observations of protests and service provision to develop guidelines for solidarity research, a knowledge production practice that prioritizes the needs and perspectives of marginalized communities.

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“没有我们就没有我们”：阅读反对压迫性知识生产的抗议作为团结研究的指导方针

根据我对性工作者和无家可归者抗议的分析，以及我对无家可归者和性交易者进行民族志研究的经验，我提出了对经历过常规、正常化暴力的人群进行伦理、政策相关研究的建议，以及经常被学者和政策制定者压制和歪曲的人。本文分析了对非性工作者或无家可归的“局外人”的抗议活动，抗议活动家认为是压迫性的知识生产。2012 年至 2015 年期间发生了针对“关于我们没有我们”的研究的抗议活动，针对的对象是学术研究人员和政策制定者。我从边缘群体反对外来“专家”知识生产的抗议中汲取教训，提出传统贫困研究的三个问题：病态化、家长式作风和提取性外来化。我利用我对抗议和服务提供的观察来制定团结研究的指导方针，这是一种优先考虑边缘化社区的需求和观点的知识生产实践。