While various female authors have dealt with the changes in positionality implied by doing research as a feminist, few have lingered over what it means to do research in an Arab-Amazigh society with a Muslim majority as a native researcher (or insider). This article reviews, from the perspective of positional intersectional feminism, prior research focused on battered women in a working-class area near Rabat, and then provides possible explanations for methodological issues such as access in solidarity to a sensitive field, presentation to research subjects from the same social background, creating various kinds of relationships of trust and collecting painful stories. Beyond data construction, the article proposes a consideration of how to analyze the results, whether by giving meaning to cultural and religious justifications for domestic violence or by reporting on its intergenerational and inter-class manifestations among women.