In a single paragraph that represents one long thought, “I’d say I was a runner” explores the act of running as a form of self-therapy.
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 2022 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative deadline for submissions and awards has been extended AUGUST 1, 2021.”
I couldn't go to India for the past two years due to COVID-19 uncertainties and be with the rest of my family to help them navigate through this earth-shattering loss when they needed me the most, a sad reality of many international students.”
“Entanglements of the Mind, Soul, and Body” details our journey as researchers utilizing narrative collage and collage portraits as a tool for data analysis.
This work addresses the issue of young women being underserved as health care patients, specifically through the lens of medical gaslighting.
"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."
"I’m Pinkie, the brash I don’t give a fuck alter ego of Renata Ferdinand. I am emerging from the shadows, and blissfully, with my own column."
"As a New Age Sage or “Saxion”, it’s important to understand that to move things forward I must accept a challenge - to reinvent myself."
Poems As a Form of Powerful Activism and Barrier-breakers is a compilation of three poems which mean a lot for me.
In 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.
Jesus and Fentanyl: A Mortician's Perspective is actually thoughts from a funeral director and also an ode to an overdose victim.