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autoethnographer: one who uses lived experience as evidence with which to explore cultural phenomena.
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Confessions of an ESL Student explores the significant role that English study played in my development as a student and adult.
"My research on tattoo meanings utilised autoethnographic accounts of practice to increase understanding of tattooing as practice & profession."
Patricia Leavy·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysCelebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024Special Issues
··30 min readIn Part One, I situated my work within the context of the work of writers. Now, I’m situating my work within the context of women writers.
We invite you to participate in National Poetry month with us by reading and writing over at The AutoEthnographer's new Facebook group.
This essay describes my experiences of the arts during the Covid-19 when arts and culture organizations had to pivot to virtual offerings.
"Congratulations to Shanita Mitchell, Editorial Board member of The AutoEthnographer and multimedia artist, for her recognition by the International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry (IAANI)."
"My stories are meant to give women from Bangladesh a chance to show their strength and resilience. It is a way for me to try to connect with the rest of the world despite the differences in language and culture."
In today's new podcast & video Marlen Harrison talks with current marketing interns about the role of culture in using Google Ads.
"This poem is rumination on how the personal experience of volunteering in never-before-seen flood relief efforts in the remote north reinforces the research that 'many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years.'"
My Body Is a Suitcase: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Links between Childhood...
"What if autoethnography were treated not as an academic subject but as an artistic one?"
I documented my two-month diet in a food journal and it began as a personal effort to lose weight following a "Barthes diet".
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autoethnographer: one who uses lived experience as evidence with which to explore cultural phenomena.
What is autoethnography? The AutoEthnographer's international team of editors offer definitions & suggested readings.
“The AutoEthnographer is an award-winning, non-profit, open-access, peer-reviewed literary and arts magazine dedicated to presenting the creative side of autoethnography, a qualitative research method uniting ethnography and autobiography that utilizes lived experience as evidence with which to explore cultural phenomena." ISSN: 2833-1400
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"How universal homesickness is, even for those who didn’t come from the best homes; these salmon came from Concrete, Washington, and they still fight like hell to come back every single year."
The Resistant Analysand: A Memoir Author’s Memo My memoir is about my growing up as the daughter of...
Emerging Immigrant’s Accents is about how language impacts our self image as we come to understand ourselves and our cultural beings.
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This piece explores the ways in which identity and esteem are interwoven into the topic of Black hair.
What happens when a witch is black? This piece is a salute to the transformational beauty of cosplay & all the laughter it inspires.
This artwork is based on a startling and memorable encounter at the local vet while attempting to get Anaïs spayed.
In my work , the issues of depression, anxiety, and bulimia nervosa are discussed heavily.
It is a reckoning on sisters and queers after themes of family violence, sibling disconnection and queer isolation emerge.
This work illustrates the very personal process of a Chinese-born immigrant to the U.S. and a U.S. born citizen learning about each other's cultures over the course of a 27 year marriage.
In The AutoEthnographer’s latest podcast, Marlen Harrison talks with Sandra Faulkner about collage and visual poetry.
Dilek Isler Hayirli·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaEducationFrom the EditorsMoreReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
··13 min read"I had not been aware that this emotional research was also performing autoethnography, collecting memories from the field"
"Although I never planned it, I wrote a series of novels, Celestial Bodies, that have pierced my heart in a way nothing else ever has, changing me as a writer and as a person."
"This is an autoethnographic narrative where I use my own marriage to tell a story about love, bodily autonomy, acceptance and illness."
My essay tells my life story in relation to a specific moment in the history of American women’s access to abortion and reproductive justice.
What this essay tries to capture is both the wonder and the inherent horror in potty training.
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Book Review: Revealing the Mantra of Trauma Author’s Memo This review of The Trauma Mantras seeks to convey...
"The AutoEthnographer is proud to announce that it has been selected by the United States Library of Congress for inclusion in their collections!"
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