{"id":37,"date":"2014-11-06T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T21:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2014-11-15T00:52:03","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T05:52:03","slug":"process","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/process\/","title":{"rendered":"Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning in May 2014, Mikayla Bobrow and Hannah Yore began work with\u00a0\u00a0various organizations and communities of sex workers in Worcester, MA in order to familiarize themselves with community needs and local discourses around sex work. Researchers found that\u00a0sex workers\u00a0reported feelings of isolation and misrepresentation in the media and by law enforcement. Women also expressed a desire to\u00a0expose their lived experiences without fear of repercussion. They emphasized that they wanted their experiences and identities to be\u00a0<em>understood. <\/em>Perhaps most\u00a0importantly, sex workers emphasized their desire to have control over their representation in public conversation. Thus, this project developed as a response to reported community needs and concerns about the representation, stigmatization and treatment of sex workers in Worcester, MA.<\/p>\n<p>Women interested in participating\u00a0in the oral history project meet directly with the two researchers, Mikayla Bobrow and Hannah Yore, and are welcome to share any aspect of their story.\u00a0These oral histories are conducted\u00a0conversationally without specific interview questions in order to ensure that the researchers do not dictate the nature or content of women&#8217;s narratives.<\/p>\n<p>After conducting the oral history, women have the opportunity to review the transcription of their stories and engage in an editing process with the researchers to choose sections of their narrative for publication. This allows\u00a0participants control over what is shared with the public and gives them\u00a0a second opportunity to ensure they are comfortable with content. The researchers do this at least a week after the oral history to allow women to make changes to their narratives after having time to\u00a0reflect on what they shared.\u00a0Women are also asked at this time to choose a pseudonym to protect their anonymity in this process. Other markers of identity are changed in the editing process.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning in May 2014, Mikayla Bobrow and Hannah Yore began work with\u00a0\u00a0various organizations and communities of sex workers in Worcester, MA in order to familiarize themselves with community needs and local discourses around sex work. Researchers found that\u00a0sex workers\u00a0reported feelings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/process\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/tellyourstory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}