Introduction -- Intercultural misunderstandings: An Indian-Dutch research project in the early 1970s -- Messy Tales from fieldwork for design -- Becoming an activist, becoming a researcher -- Another rant about technology -- Minutes to deportation: Confronting danger and threat in the levant -- "Would you say, I can get my money back?" -- Taking ethics seriously -- Designing AI tools to address power imbalances in digital labor platforms -- Breaking new ground: Stories from the wild -- Researching dark voices within the Veil of the Academy -- Designing with, for and without communities -- Becoming western: Reflections and stories of being in Western Academia.