In Zweden liet Joyce Follet een indrukwekkend fragment zien van een interview met Loretta Ross zien. Het interview met Ross is 23 (!) uur lang. Ross is een Afro Amerikaanse vrouw die strijdt voor reproductieve rechten en tegen (seksueel) geweld. In het fragment reflecteert ze op het interview-proces:
ROSS: "Well, as I was rereading the transcript from the first ten tapes, I guess, I was bemused by the fact that, without intending it, I was self-censoring, that there are details that I’m not giving to the archives, that I’m [not] casually leaving littered around for people to read at their leisure. And I think that’s part of the oral history process, though, that you self-disclose but only to a point, because you don’t necessarily want to make your entire life available for casual scrutiny for anybody that can use the web and browse through the litter of one’s life. And so, even though I felt that I was being pretty self-revealing in the process, in reading back over it I thought, Loretta, there’s still a lot you didn’t put out there. And I’m not going to do it now. (laughs) FOLLET: You’re not going to tell me what question would unlock that that I haven’t thought to ask? ROSS: No. And this oral history feels like emotional, political, and psychological exploratory surgery. You don’t know what you’re going to find when you make the incision and you peel back the skin and you look in. And I think that it’s designed to both create a narrative, and I think one of the byproducts of the creation of that narrative is to create a certain level of discomfort, with being the focus of a camera and so much intentional focus. And I can honestly say, it’s not the most comfortable place I’ve ever been. I never thought that telling the story of one’s life personally and politically would be such a scary process, but it actually is."(Loretta Ross, interview by Joyce Follet, transcript of video recording, February 4, 2005, Voices of Feminism Oral History Project, Sophia Smith Collection, pp. 359.)
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