"The words we use and how we say them are much more than sounds, they tell a story that gives us away, revealing a history about and behind us, a place and a people that we have come from."
Autoethnographic Writing
Whether short-form or long-form, personal memoir or speculative fiction, The AutoEthnographer seeks to publish your evocative expressions of the cultural made personal.
"In "Becoming Multilingual," part 2 of my column, "¡Aguacate! Bringing Up Bebe Bilingüe," I use autoethnography as a writing approach to capture and represent the personal experiences of myself, a qualitative researcher, who has become the researched."
What this essay tries to capture is both the wonder and the inherent horror in potty training.
Ethology is a highly fictionalized ethnographic account of my travels around Tanzania, East Africa during my teens.
I. Hate. Black. History. Month. And I’m hopeful, that in time, you will come to hate it too!
“Manslation” explores several episodes from the author’s childhood and early adulthood that show the development of his sexual literacy.
This lighthearted essay illustrates an experience I had in Singapore while doing research for a book I was writing about spirituality.
"My Old Kentucky Homo," highlights my failure to assimilate into the community in which I still live, fourteen years later.
Jill Boyles·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 2 (2024)
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“A Quest for Social Justice: Notes on an Encounter” continues my accounting of having been falsely accused of sexual assault online.
A Startling Note: "Looking for Gay Friends" in the Triangle Place narrates a gay man’s experience of sexual awakening on a university campus.
This piece recounts a trip I took to the Czech Republic and it is proof that language barriers similarly embolden people to speak cruelly.