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autoethnographer: one who uses lived experience as evidence with which to explore cultural phenomena.
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I use poetry to describe living with ME/CFS, an illness that is chronic and invisible, thus bringing awareness to this little known diagnosis.
In this 2nd of my Processing Parental Grief series, Calliandra receives a letter from her mother weeks after her death.
In this work, I unpack how realizing my queerness has influenced how I write my poetry.
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.
This piece recounts a trip I took to the Czech Republic and it is proof that language barriers similarly embolden people to speak cruelly.
"This autoethnographic essay explores in a (hopefully) creative way ideas about social class in relation to my own negotiations of identity and upbringing in eastern Sydney, Australia."
I provide context by referencing theory and practice in narrative medicine and current literary criticism around trauma plots.
"Ongoing horrific events painstakingly filled my mind when I submerged into Dante’s Commedia Divina. Our tragedy with nature revealed itself to me in its deepest form."
"We began this autoethnographic essay thinking about the love the teachers have for their students."
"One can’t write poetry without love. It is the strongest and the most vital root in poetry."
When Whistles Melt into Beeps: Four Poems for AutoEthnographer Author’s Memo I...
This work of experimental poetry examines the interaction between the happy user of the open source format and the automated surface.
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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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Catherine Berresheim·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionAutoethnographic WritingBodily Autonomy Special Issue, 2022-23Special Issues
··14 min readLEARN MORE “Bodily Autonomy: A Fetus for a Fetus” explores the cultural issues of what it means to...
"This essay on bodily autonomy specifically discusses abortion access and rights in the United States and Canada, and the politics that often follow."
After 34 years of monogamy I entered the dating app world and began writing the first weekend I was single. This is story of my experience.
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"Combining autoethnography and artwork, Supreme Justice aims to reveal the persistence of institutionalized oppression of women through history."
Terry Graff·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaAutoethnographic EssaysClimate Change Special Issue, 2022Special Issues
··13 min read"In retrospect, it was inevitable that birds and machines would converge in my work as a life-long exploration and expression of the relationship between nature and technology through the creation of avian cyborgs, the genesis of which can be traced back to my early drawings of robots and of the bygone birds of my childhood."
"While living in Ecuador, I wrote “Home” which essentially is an homage to the “third-culture kid” phenomenon, when your parents are from another country than the one you grew up in."
Poems As a Form of Powerful Activism and Barrier-breakers is a compilation of three poems which mean a lot for me.
I strived to represent the experience of being a pediatric healthcare worker during COVID.
"It is in finding these solutions, the tape and the glue that holds us all together, that we find the beauty of who we are as people."
"I’ve already resisted that scholarship is not creative and poetry is not part of my scholarly self. I think the idea of autoethnography allows for that cultural divide between the creative and academic to be really disrupted."
"Once I have the first line or two, the rest of the poem seems to flow rather easily. I write whatever comes to mind. Somewhat like a story rather than a poem. I then start to take out the excess words and phrases and pare it down to the essence of what I wish to say. Other times I do not change a word. The muses come and go on their own. I also believe poetry has chosen me."
"One way to reach broader audiences is to embrace creative nonfiction and use storytelling as academic writing."
"I write at length about my experiences surviving rape and abuse as a Western woman in Japan. I was lucky to get out alive."
What this essay tries to capture is both the wonder and the inherent horror in potty training.
"I tend to take every loss of rainforest personally. My autoethnographic poetry 'The Threat' and 'John Doe' are reflective of this."
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This is a conversation with Patricia Leavy about writing fiction during the pandemic and her new novel, The Location Shoot.
"It is in finding these solutions, the tape and the glue that holds us all together, that we find the beauty of who we are as people."
"Throughout the first week of January, 2022, the International Association of Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry (IAANI.org) will hold their International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative (ISAN) as an online conference."
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