Abstract

Sharing our research with participants and communities is a standard and critically important ethical practice in anthropology, but do we use such opportunities to their full potential? In this article, I reflect on the possibilities generated by a community dissemination event to share my research with men who have sex with men and engage in sex work in Kisumu, Kenya. Drawing on Arjun Apaddurai's concept of an "ethics of possibility" that pushes beyond ordinary ethical practice, I reflect upon engagement with participants in the research process and advocate for greater emphasis on research dissemination events as a strategy to make research more meaningful to communities. Although my project was initially framed around HIV, what emerged were men's desire for spirituality, belonging, and new possibilities of inclusive citizenship that better attend to men's health and well-being. Research dissemination creates a critical space to generate ethnographic insight and guide theoretically rich applied health research.

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