ABSTRACT
This chapter considers ethics as a feminist transdisciplinary research practice and explores the possibilities that emerge when ethics, as a central focus of collaboration, is crafted in ways that push against confining institutional practices. Our experiments with craft, reflexivity, and conversation articulate an ethical praxis for qualitative research. It emerges from a series of participatory seminars, attended online by a fluctuating and diverse gathering of scholars and students, during which we explored immanent, playful, and purposeful approaches to making research processes more just. We pushed against normative institutional membranes that, in our experience, encourage narrow constructions of ethical research. We focused attention on complexity, humility, vulnerability, uncertainty, kindness, transparency, empathy, power, and reflexivity in each one's own becoming as an ethical researcher. This writing suggests that ethical research praxis not only disregards disciplinary categories, but that it transgresses academic codes and structures: it calls on researchers to reflect on their whole selves and to bring their whole selves as they engage with research partners who are themselves wholly complex persons.
