“…She is a former special education teacher who taught for 6 years in the Southeastern United States. In her notebook, she was able to monitor the emotional toll of engaging in interviews about discrimination and systems of oppression (e.g., ableism, classism, racism, sexism), while also increasing transparency about how her positionality informed the data analysis and item development procedures (see appendices in Boveda, 2016). She used the journal to document the research process of her study, her practices as the researcher, and to reflect “critically on the processes and practices” (Ortlipp, 2008, p. 696).…”