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Autoethnographic Essay: The Minority in American Literature

Olivia M. Ojeda·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysAutoethnographic WritingVolume 1, Issue 1 (2021)
·September 16, 2021·5 min read
"I have personally been that teenager, marking down “white” on a school application, hesitating to answer when an Anglo-American asked me “what are you?”, and leaving those experiences with a deeper sense of displacement."
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Fragrance Cultures: The Making of a Perfume Critic, Part 1

Marlen Harrison·
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·October 3, 2021·18 min read
"As fragrance, and perfume in particular, has played a major role in the shaping of my writer’s voice, and participation in cultures of fragrance has had a major impact upon my identity, it is impossible to situate myself outside of these cultures. It is because of this privilege of “insider identity” within the global fragrance community and my natural inclination towards narrative research that I turned to autoethnography."
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Fragrance Cultures: The Making of a Perfume Historian

Elena Vosnaki·
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·November 26, 2021·15 min read
"Because I was so immersed in both history, bound in good-smelling leather, no less, and in beautiful and evocative little bottles around me as playthings, I guess it needed no further prompting. It was within my blood before I could think about what I wanted to do with my life!"
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Worlds without Women: Tolkien’s Middle-earth

Diane Riggins·
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·December 17, 2021·5 min read
"My thesis began to unfold after doing some research on my final topic idea about Tolkien’s world, female characters, female gamers, and the stereotype that females are the love interests or damsels in distress. I chose autoethnography because it allowed me to add that personal angle to the paper because I am a female writer, reader, and gamer."
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Autoethnographic Art and Essay: Ode to Bygone Birds of Childhood, Part 1 – Drawings

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·March 31, 2022·13 min read
"In retrospect, it was inevitable that birds and machines would converge in my work as a life-long exploration and expression of the relationship between nature and technology through the creation of avian cyborgs, the genesis of which can be traced back to my early drawings of robots and of the bygone birds of my childhood."
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Autoethnographic Essay: Adventures in Examining Life

Dustin Grinnell·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 2, Issue 2 (2022)
·April 6, 2022·11 min read
”I still aim to engage in the process of life, commit to a meaningful purpose, and structure my life around an intrinsically satisfying activity. For me, I will continue writing as a way to make sense of what it means to be alive.”
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Autoethnographic Art and Essay: Ode to Bygone Birds of Childhood, Part 2 – Automatons and Mutants

Terry Graff·
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·May 16, 2022·15 min read
"As the world’s bird populations decline precipitously, will the many winged creatures we knew as children live only in the mists of memory?"
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Climate Epiphany: Dante’s Hell and Our Tragedy with Nature

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·
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·May 22, 2022·4 min read
"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."
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Empower Students with Banned Books as Essential Reads

Abby Schaitkin·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 2, Issue 4 (2022)
·September 30, 2022·10 min read
"Censorship via banned books is an attempt to censor the future but the youth of today will not allow their voices to be silenced."
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From the Bodily Autonomy Special Issue: This Machine Kills Babies

Acadia Currah·
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·October 8, 2022·13 min read
"This essay on bodily autonomy specifically discusses abortion access and rights in the United States and Canada, and the politics that often follow."
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Autoethnographic Essay: The Unbearable Triteness of Being (Middle Class)

Chris Fleming·
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·October 18, 2022·23 min read
"This autoethnographic essay explores in a (hopefully) creative way ideas about social class in relation to my own negotiations of identity and upbringing in eastern Sydney, Australia."
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Stray Words, Turbulent Art: Translation, or How to Love English

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·
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·November 6, 2022·4 min read
"One can’t write poetry without love. It is the strongest and the most vital root in poetry."
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