Diversity-focused research can provide important insights about gender/sex and sexual diversity, including in relation to oppression and privilege. To do so, it needs to critically engage with power and include minoritized and majoritized participants. But, the critical methods guiding this are typically aimed at empowering marginalized groups and may “overempower” majority participants. Here, we discuss three diversity-focused research projects about gender/sex and sexual diversity where our use of critical methods overempowered majority participants in ways that reinforced their privilege. We detail how diversity-focused research approaches thus need to be “majority-situating”: attending to and managing the privilege and power that majority participants carry to research. Yet, we also lay out how diversity-focused research still needs to be “minority-inclusive”: validating, welcoming, and empowering to people from marginalized social locations. We discuss these approaches working synergistically; minority-inclusive methods can also be majority-situating, providing majorities with opportunities for growth, learning, and seeing that they—and not just “others”—are socially situated. We conclude by laying out what a diversity-focused research program might look like that includes both majority-situating and minority-inclusive approaches, to work towards a more just and empirical scholarship that does not lead to majorities who are even more overempowered.

以多样性为重点的研究可以提供关于性别/性别和性多样性的重要见解，包括与压迫和特权有关的见解。为此，它需要批判性地参与权力并包括少数派和多数派的参与者。但是，指导这一点的关键方法通常旨在赋予边缘化群体权力，并可能“过度赋予”大多数参与者的权力。在这里，我们讨论了三个关于性别/性和性多样性的以多样性为重点的研究项目，在这些项目中，我们使用批判性方法以增强大多数参与者的特权的方式赋予他们权力。我们详细说明了以多样性为重点的研究方法如何因此需要“以多数人为中心”：关注和管理多数参与者在研究中的特权和权力。然而，我们还阐述了以多样性为重点的研究仍然需要“包容少数群体”：验证、欢迎和赋权给来自边缘化社会地区的人们。我们讨论了这些协同工作的方法；少数群体包容性方法也可以是多数群体，为大多数人提供成长、学习的机会，并看到他们——而不仅仅是“其他人”——处于社会地位。最后，我们列出了一个以多样性为重点的研究计划可能是什么样子，其中包括多数人定位和少数人包容性方法，以努力实现更公正和实证的学术研究，而不会导致多数人获得更多权力。少数群体包容性方法也可以是多数群体，为大多数人提供成长、学习的机会，并看到他们——而不仅仅是“其他人”——处于社会地位。最后，我们列出了一个以多样性为重点的研究计划可能是什么样子，其中包括多数人定位和少数人包容性方法，以努力实现更公正和实证的学术研究，而不会导致多数人获得更多权力。少数群体包容性方法也可以是多数群体，为大多数人提供成长、学习的机会，并看到他们——而不仅仅是“其他人”——处于社会地位。最后，我们列出了一个以多样性为重点的研究计划可能是什么样子，其中包括多数人定位和少数人包容性方法，以努力实现更公正和实证的学术研究，而不会导致多数人获得更多权力。