Contribution short abstract:

I present questions and provocations that stem from my identity as a trans queer researcher entering and working with communities of sex workers during a pandemic, raising questions on ethical research during and post a situation like a pandemic.

Contribution long abstract:

I present a short provocation on doing slow, intentional, dynamic research with vulnerable communities amidst growing concerns from grassroots collectives on the use of research that is often solely extractive. I do this by asking questions/providing examples of sex worker-led research where non-sex working researchers learn to listen, follow, and collaborate from the beginning to the end and how this may be possible in a pandemic/post-pandemic environment where the participants and the researcher both are struggling, but also experience the struggle differently because of their own social privileges/disprivileges.