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Expressions of Care: How to Provide Grief Support

Lily Fessenden and Maegan Parker Brooks·
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·February 11, 2025·13 min read
Through our collaborative autoethnography, we learned that intentionally spending time with grief is well worth the effort.
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Breathe New Life: Prison Yoga

Sylvia Sensiper·
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·February 11, 2025·26 min read
This essay is about my experience teaching yoga in a California prison.
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Redemption By Fire: The Remains of a Same-Sex Love

Anthony Domenick·
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·February 5, 2025·18 min read
This autoethnography about same-sex love poses spiritual debate on the processes of grieving and interment.
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Breaking Free: Reclaiming Authenticity in a Capitalist World

Laura Babb·
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·February 5, 2025·7 min read
In Breaking Free: Reclaiming Authenticity in a Capitalist World, I reveal how I overcame my mental health challenges and reconnected with my true self discovering the benefits of holistic therapies and shamanic healing.
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The Karen Disorder: Breaking Free from the Chains of Institutional Labels

Karen FitzGerald·
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·December 15, 2024·11 min read
The Karen Disorder: Breaking Free from the Chains of Institutional Labels emerges from my research in the field of illness and identity.
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The Pivotal—and Pivoting—Role of the Arts During Covid

Eileen Cunniffe·
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·November 17, 2024·18 min read
This essay describes my experiences of the arts during the Covid-19 when arts and culture organizations had to pivot to virtual offerings.
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That Warm Alaskan Welcome: Commercial Genetics and Mothers’ Secrets

Francesca Penchant·
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·November 17, 2024·20 min read
Commercial genetics has become a cultural phenomenon. In this piece, I use autobiography to document discovering my biological father.
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Recipes of Life: How Kitchens Preserve Intergenerational Narratives

Tracy Luciani·
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·November 16, 2024·13 min read
The cultural issues being addressed are how intergenerational knowledge is passed down between women and girls in the kitchen.
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Toxic Culture: Revealing Why Capitalist Ideals Make You Sick

Laura Babb·
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·November 1, 2024·6 min read
An empowered inner authenticity that supersedes the pressures faced by twenty-first century generations - striving for an unattainable false perfect ‘self’. 
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My Body Is a Suitcase: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Links between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders

Elisabeth Hanscombe·
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·November 1, 2024·30 min read
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#blackwomanatwork: How to Make Yourself Mobbing-proof

Camille Goodison·
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·October 13, 2024·12 min read
“blackwomanatwork” came out of my experiences working in academia as a first-generation immigrant black woman from the Caribbean.
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What Happens When You Surrender to Mainstream Capitalist Power Dynamics

Laura Babb·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·September 24, 2024·7 min read
In this four-part series, I’ll take you back through my journey from the beginning. To explore how the conditioning of the Western environment I was born into served in disconnecting me from my own inner authenticity.
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