ABSTRACT
Throughout this inquiry, I was conscious of theoretical tensions related to creating knowledge, particularly between the unified subjects of modernism on which much qualitative inquiry depends and the decentered subjects with nonlinear trajectories of various poststructural theories. For example, my inquiry began with humanistic research questions comprehensible to the teleologies and coherences privileged by Institutional Review Boards, including the motivations of individual group members, the group’s impact on campus, the meanings of participating in the group for individual members, and the campus’ impact on the group. Hoping to disrupt these modernist linearities that presume coherent subjectivities and causal relationships, I drew on feminist poststructural (e.g., Butler, 2004; Grosz, 1994), queer (Jagose, 1996), and Deleuze-andGuattarian (1987) thought to ask to what extent my inquiry could offer nuanced
understandings of subjects’ positionings in relation to social and institutional discourses.
