Since the 1960s and 1970s, there has been an increasing and necessary pressure to diversify the voices represented in the humanities disciplines. However, attempts to diversify the humanities have undeniably influenced the culture of the humanities education by contributing to one in which positionality carries weight, and a critique of an argument can be read as an invalidation of the individual who expresses it. It means identity in scholarship is understood as intellectual, shaped by research interests, educational backgrounds and views taken in their own right, the crafted rather than the inherited. Only then can we hope to prop open the door to the humanities, and still make the room worth entering. Defne Yucesir Defne Yucesir is an Opinion Columnist and a student in the College of Arts & Sciences.