...We, as researchers trained in Western paradigms, are at risk of perpetrating epistemic violence on those often silenced and marginalized. By engaging in reflexive praxis, I draw on anecdotes from my time in the field researching the marginalization and violence perpetrated on women in India...

... and iterative refinement to foster an inclusive and equitable scholarly environment. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing and rectifying the complicity of educational and scholarly practices in sustaining colonial structures and addresses the epistemic violence that systematically marginalizes non...

..., encompassing intergenerational trauma, cultural detachment, and oppressive socio-economic conditions. The epistemic violence central to the conceptualization of the boarding school was a key component of this colonial technology. John Oberly, the commissioner of Indian affairs at the time, stated in an 1886...

... – reproductive traumas – to interrogate dominant androcentric biomedical discourse of pregnancy culture, maternalisms, maternal ideology, and epistemic violence. Findings – Our knowledge about HG continues to be murky and unresolved, leaving many pregnant people – namely women – untreated...