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How to Find Your Own Voice: Journeying in the World of Poetry

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·
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·April 6, 2023·4 min read
A tsunami of words, images, learned and pushed feelings and thoughts go through us every day. Poetry is a way to find our own voice.
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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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Autoethnographic Essay: The Minority in American Literature

Olivia M. Ojeda·
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·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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Editorial: On Social Fiction, Stories, and the 2024 Special Issue of The AutoEthnographer

Patricia Leavy·
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·February 11, 2024·11 min read
Writing fiction allows me to document reality and to reimagine it, just as we can always reimagine ourselves. And that is why we need stories.
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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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Pinkie Points It Out: My Weird Depression Looks Kinda Dope!

Renata Ferdinand·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·August 7, 2023·3 min read
My weird depression showed up this summer like “hey sis!” And I was like “fuck my life”! I wasn’t ready. This time, it caught me off guard.
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Middle Age Blues

Sandra L. Faulkner·
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·May 5, 2024·21 min read
As a feminist poet and (auto)ethnographer, I found Leavy's themes of Film Blue speak to what I want my work to do and be.
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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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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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My Career Part One: Philosophy of The Arts

Patricia Leavy·
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·May 17, 2024·26 min read
There’s also a larger goal underscoring my work. I aim to create a philosophy of the arts and a philosophy of love.
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Start Again and Sparkle Always with Celestial Bodies

Xan Nowakowski·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysCelebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024Special Issues
·May 17, 2024·25 min read
I’d take the past and make it straight, Even though it’s complicated, We’ve got time to start again, I don’t know if you can hear me…
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Spark: A Novel and Metaphor for Interdisciplinary Research

Ash Watson·
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·May 6, 2024·13 min read
Leavy’s 2019 novel about a week-long all-inclusive Icelandic research seminar wends its way through meetings, planning sessions, excursions, debates and dinners to the heart of the paradigms and epistemological questions that structure and drive scholarly research.
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