"For me, being a feminist simply means I am a strong, independent woman who has ideas and thoughts of her own; but it also means something else, which is an idea that confuses even me. I mean, how could I be a feminist when I am also a conservative woman?"
"We began this autoethnographic essay thinking about the love the teachers have for their students."
In the autoethnographic "Spinach Lasagna", the narrator joins a family of southern Italians and learns that grieving is cultural.
"This is an autoetnography of a black fatherhood journey which encapsulates my hopes, my fears, my love of baby and mother, while trying my best to make sense of a Black fatherhood I wanted so very dearly."
As I discuss my first queer event, a book discussion about a queer young adult book, Canto Contigo, I will explore my anxieties about my sexual identity, and the repercussions of this community warfare.
Catherine Berresheim·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionAutoethnographic WritingBodily Autonomy Special Issue, 2022-23
··14 min readLEARN MORE “Bodily Autonomy: A Fetus for a Fetus” explores the cultural issues of what it means to be a...
This article is a prequel to ongoing research into DIY Healing Within Ancestral Lands. A project born of growing up in a family system that was not kind, welcoming or loving.
Confessions of an ESL Student explores the significant role that English study played in my development as a student and adult.
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.
"Barriers melt like grilled cheese at the table when you're dancing for your supper like the old vaudevillians."
Emerging Immigrant’s Accents is about how language impacts our self image as we come to understand ourselves and our cultural beings.
"This is my childhood memory of realizing the power of laughter when everything interior and exterior makes me scared."