When Queer Lovers Collaborate: The Rough Edges of Smooth Knowledge in a Diabetes Research Project

23/10/2025 20 min

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This bonus content is a reading from Platypus, the CASTAC Blog. The full post by Lyndsey Beutin and Cal Biruk can be read at https://blog.castac.org/2025/10/when-queer-lovers-collaborate-the-rough-edges-of-smooth-knowledge-in-a-diabetes-research-project/. About the post: Our research on a medical condition that only one of us has but both of us live with is an apt site for considering questions of expertise, allocation of credit, and the complexities of embodied knowledge in collaborative anthropological research.

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