The Struggle over Composition and the Question of Might: A Response to Gary Olson

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women and white women's participation in it. I can choose to use my own experiences of what it is like to be in the position of Other?even if only temporarily?as motivation to develop empathy for the status and condi tions of those different from me. This empathy can, in turn, render me uncomfortable with my privilege, my WEM-CHMAI, potentially leading me to critique and challenge it. Our affinities, then, become a reason to engage with the status and conditions of our differences. We can also turn the focus away from subordination: it seems possible that Hum might have experiences of power and privilege in her life that might speak to my own experiences with power and privilege in complex and divergent ways, and such a discussion would lead to a more sophisticated under standing of entitlement. This approach to positionality takes us out of the polarization that so often characterizes attempts to deal with diversity. Hum warns us of the danger of such an approach, however, when she wr

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