I share real world examples of why I believe the trans community uses empathy as a powerful tool to combat transphobia and promote self-love.
"It is my hope that these words will serve as the beginning of an ongoing dialogue about what it means to live autoethnography."
"Then comes that special brand of rage and dejection that the patriarchy inspires by attempting to steal away with my bodily autonomy."
I offer the following five poems to you. I hope that when you read/hear them you see a way into your own stories and ideas of poetic voice.
"Here is a humble attempt for the 2022 special issue that comes in simple words to show how climate change begins at home."
This writing is based on storytelling, common in Mexican culture.
This work addresses the issue of young women being underserved as health care patients, specifically through the lens of medical gaslighting.
This lighthearted essay illustrates an experience I had in Singapore while doing research for a book I was writing about spirituality.
The dynamic taking place in these poems was autoethnography, a hybrid of my investigation of the 1960's coupled with my personal experience.
Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: I Just Want to Go Home – Moving, Loss and Unacknowledged Grief
"Moving away from a beloved home at a tender age was traumatizing, in part, because that home was the only place in which I felt safe."
The lyrics of "World's Greatest Man" grapple with the paradoxes of participant-observation as well as the ambiguity of development work in Thailand.
Christine Sleeter·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysCelebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024Reflections on Method
··23 min readChristine Sleeter writes about Dr. Patricia Leavy's new genre, Sleeter's own books and her reflections on the social fiction series.
