This blog post is a reply to Hugo Slim’s recent post on Impartiality and Intersectionality. We foreground the concepts of vulnerability and epistemic injustice and raise questions about the ethical implications of the ways in which these concepts are operationalized in humanitarian practice.Among other worries, we wonder about its potential to perpetuate injustices, even as its use aims at ameliorating them. For example, bracketing identities into categories of vulnerability can result in absolute reductionisms. Individuals who experienced gender-based violence may, for instance, be viewed as passive victims and humanitarian health responses may forego positive coping strategies.