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Why I Write: An Essay on Language, Writing and Identity

Hongwei Bao·
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·October 31, 2023·28 min read
This autoethnographic essay offers a musing on the intricate relationship between language, writing and identity through an autoethnographic account of my reading and writing experience from childhood to present, and from China to the UK via Germany.
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Racial Discrimination in and out of the Classroom

Brittany Whitneybell·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·August 27, 2023·63 min read
This work shows that the benefits of reading multiple texts, each from a different perspective provides opportunities for students.
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That Warm Alaskan Welcome: Commercial Genetics and Mothers’ Secrets

Francesca Penchant·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·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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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: Cooking with Cannabis

Sandra L. Faulkner·
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·November 20, 2021·19 min read
"When I return to Sam’s place with the cheesecloth, I smell our “soup” pot. Shit. I envision the blotter headline: ECU Professor busted for marijuana. What a way to make my graduate mentors proud and to show success at this professor business."
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A Collision of Several Cultures: My Old Kentucky Homo

Joshua Adair·
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·May 13, 2023·15 min read
"My Old Kentucky Homo," highlights my failure to assimilate into the community in which I still live, fourteen years later.
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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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Never Quite The Same: Fluid Meanings in Autoethnography

Karenanna Boyle Creps·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 3, Issue 4 (2023)
·October 25, 2023·9 min read
I share the complexity of my frustration about a failed site visit to the British Museum and wonder about the meaning of the experience.
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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: I Just Want to Go Home – Moving, Loss and Unacknowledged Grief

Michelle Reale·
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·March 23, 2022·18 min read
"Moving away from a beloved home at a tender age was traumatizing, in part, because that home was the only place in which I felt safe."
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Loss Series 1: Coping with Pet Bereavement and My Forever Love for My Beautiful Cat, ‘Timi’

Dilek Isler Hayirli·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 2 (2024)
·June 1, 2024·7 min read
Coping with Pet Bereavement: My Forever Love for My Beautiful Cat 'Timi' is definitely not a farewell; it is only a love letter for my beloved cat who got lost on January 15, 2023, days after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit southern Türkiye. Like my country, I was also shaken deeply, and like the buildings, my heart almost collapsed.
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New Age Sage: The Christening Gown

Catherine Vandermal·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 3, Issue 1 (2023)
·January 18, 2023·13 min read
"The Christening Gown' is an autoethnographic exploration of the significance of a family heirloom for an Irish Catholic family in the USA."
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Autoethnographic Nonfiction: Grieving, or How to Make the Best Spinach Lasagna

Zsofia Czako, Walter Burgess and Marietta Morry·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 3, Issue 1 (2023)
·March 17, 2023·14 min read
In the autoethnographic "Spinach Lasagna", the narrator joins a family of southern Italians and learns that grieving is cultural.
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You Need to Know How to Escape the Perils of Capitalist Mental Entrapment 

Laura Babb·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·August 4, 2024·7 min read
I’ll take you back through my journey and then reveal how I overcame my mental health challenges and reconnected with my true self.
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