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Syrian Identity and Academic Self: Emerging Research or Ruthless Methodology?

Ataa Alsalloum·
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·September 10, 2024·23 min read
Syrian Identity and Academic Self: Emerging Research or Ruthless Methodology seeks to illuminate a personal reflection that sparked a unique line of inquiry, ultimately leading to an innovative exploration within my research project.
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A Hard Look at Home: On the Paradoxes of Place

Jesse Curran·
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·August 21, 2024·9 min read
I channel Kincaid’s ironic and critical tone, while atoning for my failures to recognize dominant racist and classist discourses.
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Writing Magic: Hot Pink Truth Serum of My Trauma

Iris Gildea·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·August 16, 2024·7 min read
This piece, Hot Pink Truth Serum of My Trauma, is an autoethnography that speaks to the cultures and communities of survivors of childhood sexual abuse and violence.
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The Road To Hell: Monstrous Ethnographies and Research Extraction

Aisling Walsh·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·August 11, 2024·8 min read
This piece is a creative reflection which emerged out of the auto-ethnographic reflections from my PhD around research extraction.
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Colorless People: “Know Better, Do Better”

Catherine Vandermal·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·August 7, 2024·2 min read
Can a colorless person have any sense of what it feels like to be prejudged against, before “the you -  inside yourself” opens your eyes in the morning?
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You Need to Know How to Escape the Perils of Capitalist Mental Entrapment 

Laura Babb·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·August 4, 2024·7 min read
I’ll take you back through my journey and then reveal how I overcame my mental health challenges and reconnected with my true self.
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Imbroglio: Poetry on Depression, Anxiety, and Bulimia Nervosa

Hannah Englander·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·July 29, 2024·7 min read
In my work , the issues of depression, anxiety, and bulimia nervosa are discussed heavily.
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Astonishing Truth: Abortion is Everyone’s Beeswax

Nancy Jorgensen·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·July 21, 2024·5 min read
Madison, Wisconsin is full of surprises, sometimes entertaining, always enlightening. But I didn’t plan for an abortion protest during a family weekend.
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Horror, Hate, and Hysteria: How to Survive the Exigencies of War

Kathleen Hellen·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·July 13, 2024·4 min read
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.
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You’re Still Here: Art and Grief in Autoethnographic Textiles

Rebecca Godderis·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·July 7, 2024·9 min read
You’re Still Here: Art and Grief in Autoethnographic Textiles Artist’s Memo You’re Still Here: Art and Grief in Autoethnographic Textiles...
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Being Bi: Craving Acceptance in a Divisive Culture War

R. Adam Wright·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionQueer Special Issue, 2023-24
·July 5, 2024·8 min read
As I discuss my first queer event, a book discussion about a queer young adult book, Canto Contigo, I will explore my anxieties about my sexual identity, and the repercussions of this community warfare.
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Buried Under Identities. How to Free My Sense of Self?

Kara Thorndike·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·July 5, 2024·27 min read
This article is a prequel to ongoing research into DIY Healing Within Ancestral Lands. A project born of growing up in a family system that was not kind, welcoming or loving.
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