This piece situates me in a set of sour in-laws relationships that also involved the legal system and it is in the form of autoethnography.
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.
I share the complexity of my frustration about a failed site visit to the British Museum and wonder about the meaning of the experience.
The essay tells the story of the author's attempt to bridge the gap in political beliefs between himself and his uncle.
I explore the intersection of queer identity and popular culture through the lens of my adolescent crush on rock legend Tina Turner.
In this 2nd of my Processing Parental Grief series, Calliandra receives a letter from her mother weeks after her death.
"Horse, Therapy is a story of my own experience and is a commentary on trauma, both in animals and humans."
"Unspeakable is a consideration of the silencing effects of stuttering, political censorship, unspeakable wartime atrocities, and the silent communication within virtual relationships."
"And these are the things I carry: the memories of those gone before us; the names of those entrusted to me to care for."
This particular piece, "What is Human, Remains" looks back at my first year as a teacher, and the unexpected activism in my students.
"Ongoing horrific events painstakingly filled my mind when I submerged into Dante’s Commedia Divina. Our tragedy with nature revealed itself to me in its deepest form."
Michael: Tesserae 1 is part of a series written about a two-year community arts fellowship I had with a Baltimore City public middle school and surrounding communities to demonstrate the power of art for community organizing.
I. Hate. Black. History. Month. And I’m hopeful, that in time, you will come to hate it too!