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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.
FROM OUR ARCHIVES
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
AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC WRITING
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"When a favorite perfume ceases to exist, it is another kind of death. Having been created, it leaves a special sort of emptiness," from Eulogy for a Perfume.
“Four Essays on Being Trans in the Anthropocene” in one of autoethnographic works on my queerness and informed by speculative anthropology.
Confessions of an ESL Student explores the significant role that English study played in my development as a student and adult.
AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC MULTIMEDIA
"Combining autoethnography and artwork, Supreme Justice aims to reveal the persistence of institutionalized oppression of women through history."
In today's new podcast & video Marlen Harrison talks with current marketing interns about the role of culture in using Google Ads.
The focus of this piece is to highlight and celebrate the asexual and aromantic community and what it means to exist outside of the expectation to be partnered.
"Here is a humble attempt for the 2022 special issue that comes in simple words to show how climate change begins at home."
As two authors/playwrights exploring this small island on the East Coast of Canada, we write to share our own experiences and perspectives.
I write out of the consciousness that I am both a product of the violence of war and a migratory being—not only in the strictest sense of physical displacement, but also in belonging.
What is autoethnography? The AutoEthnographer's international team of editors offer definitions & suggested readings.
Patricia Leavy·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysCelebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024MoreReflections on MethodSpecial Issues
··11 min readWriting fiction allows me to document reality and to reimagine it, just as we can always reimagine ourselves. And that is why we need stories.
"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."
Terry Graff·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaAutoethnographic EssaysAutoethnographic WritingClimate Change Special Issue, 2022Special Issues
··15 min read"As the world’s bird populations decline precipitously, will the many winged creatures we knew as children live only in the mists of memory?"
Laurel Richardson and U. Melissa Anyiwo·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysCelebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024MoreReflections on MethodSpecial Issues
··14 min readLaurel Richardson and U. Melissa Anyiwo writes the introduction to this special issue celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy’s work.
"This is my childhood memory of realizing the power of laughter when everything interior and exterior makes me scared."
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How do creatives find joy in artistic performance as a form of black feminist autoethnography? Podcast & video.
Book Review: Revealing the Mantra of Trauma Author’s Memo This review of The Trauma Mantras seeks to convey...
In today's new podcast & video Marlen Harrison talks with current marketing interns about the role of culture in using Google Ads.
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