"At friends’ homes and the inexpensive trattorias where I usually ate, there was always wine and water on the table, but often only one glass."
Our editor Ulla-Maija Matikainen is questioning the call of otherness and narrates her discovery about the sameness that she has seen.
I. Hate. Black. History. Month. And I’m hopeful, that in time, you will come to hate it too!
Just like Puerto Rican immigrants, animals might land in a complex political landscape where some might welcome them, but some might not.
Ulla-Maija Matikainen·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysAutoethnographic PoetryEducationFrom the EditorsVolume 3, Issue 2 (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.
There are multiple approaches to find one's poetic voice depending on the lens one chooses as a part of the author’s creative process.
This lighthearted essay illustrates an experience I had in Singapore while doing research for a book I was writing about spirituality.
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.
What is my responsibility as a trans feminine person when the human-induced strain on the planet is the driver of the climate crisis?
“Four Essays on Being Trans in the Anthropocene” in one of autoethnographic works on my queerness and informed by speculative anthropology.
This essay and video introduce an autoethnographic study of my life as a deaf child in Finland learning sign language.
I explore the intersection of queer identity and popular culture through the lens of my adolescent crush on rock legend Tina Turner.