ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a glimpse into Barradell Sarah's portrayal of the voices that haunt her learning, how they linger and seep into folds and cracks of her evolving researcher identity. Peseta Tai offers a response intended to describe the practices we have adopted that other students and supervisors might wish to try out together. The voices contain a legacy and exert a presence that foreground the moving relation between identity, writing, and feedback. For Sarah, it has been important to identify and acknowledge those voices, to figure out how and when they matter to the PhD journey, the research, and the thesis, and to learn how and why to put them in their proper place. Frustration, misunderstanding, and disappointment are in many ways inevitable effects of learning with, and from others, especially when the task involves the co-production of new knowledge bound by disciplinary and institutional conventions.
