Rethinking Ventriloquism: Untellability, Chaotic Narratives, Social Justice, and the Choice to Speak For, About, and Without

Over the years, our strategies of representation have been criticized for focusing on the integration of marginal voices by sometimes choosing to speak on behalf of underrepresented communities. Using examples from rape, domestic violence, and HIV 'deliberate' infection, this paper will explore issues that arise when considering representational ideology in the context of incoherent or chaotic narratives of traumatized and stigmatized research participants.