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Abstract
Engaging in research with Indigenous and Black women as a white woman settler involves critical considerations related to white supremacy, settler colonialism, and misogynoir. This is particularly true when the participants have been imprisoned and the researcher has not. As such, this article describes my unique abolition feminist methodology rooted in a framework of relational accountability which centred experiences of Black and Indigenous women who have been strip searched in prison. It describes the specific steps I took to enact the ethics of relational accountability – reciprocity, respect, and responsibility – in each phase of the research. This includes an innovative method of meaning-making whereby I listened to the recorded conversations with women while I was on the land of a federal prison. This facilitated more wholistic and embodied meaning-making as I was able to hear and feel what the women were sharing while being in the presence of a federal prison. I also engage in abolition feminist praxis by critically reflecting on the ways in which power and practices of superiority showed up throughout the research process.
Keywords:
- Decolonizing social work,
- Abolition Feminism,
- Strip Searching,
- Women in Prison,
- decolonized research,
- relational accountability
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Biographical note
Jessica Hutchison is a white settler, abolition feminist, and activist-scholar who is deeply committed to dismantling racist and colonial systems. She is an assistant professor in Social Work at Wilfrid Laurier University whose work is informed by her long-standing prisoners’ rights advocacy, and solidarity with those most impacted by systems of oppression and domination. Jessica is also a research associate with the Centre for Indigegogy at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she supports other settlers in their decolonizing journeys.