Autoethnographic Writing

Whether short-form or long-form, personal memoir or speculative fiction, The AutoEthnographer seeks to publish your evocative expressions of the cultural made personal.

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Celebrating the 65+ New Age Sage, in Praise of Saxions

Catherine Vandermal·

All Content Autoethnographic Writing Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·August 28, 2022·5 min read

"As a New Age Sage or “Saxion”, it’s important to understand that to move things forward I must accept a challenge - to reinvent myself."

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Bodily Autonomy: A Fetus for a Fetus

Catherine Berresheim·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Autoethnographic Writing Bodily Autonomy Special Issue, 2022-23 Special Issues

·August 10, 2022·14 min read

LEARN MORE “Bodily Autonomy: A Fetus for a Fetus” explores the cultural issues of what it means to be a...

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¡Aguacate!, Part II: How I Learned Two Languages

Stephanie Abraham·

All Content Autoethnographic Writing Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)

·July 18, 2022·9 min read

"In "Becoming Multilingual," part 2 of my column, "¡Aguacate! Bringing Up Bebe Bilingüe," I use autoethnography as a writing approach to capture and represent the personal experiences of myself, a qualitative researcher, who has become the researched."

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Processing Parental Grief: The Unexpected Joy of a Found Sweater

Michelle Shreeve·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Fiction Volume 2, Issue 2 (2022)

·June 20, 2022·6 min read

I write of parental grief & my mother's sweater as a comfort to me, exploring cultures of grief where pain meets love and love meets pain.

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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: “Emily,” An Artist-Teacher in Adult Community Learning

Abbie Cairns·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Volume 2, Issue 2 (2022)

·June 14, 2022·8 min read

"She needs to be an artist to be an artist-teacher in adult community learning. She needs to do both to become the best she can be."

Autoethnographic Literary Fiction: “Cold Snap,” a Climate Catastrophe Story

John Tavares·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Fiction Climate Change Special Issue, 2022 Special Issues

·June 7, 2022·23 min read

“Cold Snap” is about two disparate adults, caught in the tumult of abrupt weather change, caused by the accidental detonation of an experimental meteorological weapon.

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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: “Unspeakable,” Perspectives on Ukraine and Russia

Avery Stevens·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Volume 2, Issue 2 (2022)

·June 6, 2022·11 min read

"Unspeakable is a consideration of the silencing effects of stuttering, political censorship, unspeakable wartime atrocities, and the silent communication within virtual relationships."

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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: Eulogy For a Perfume

Annie B. Shapero·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Volume 2, Issue 2 (2022)

·May 31, 2022·12 min read

"When a favorite perfume ceases to exist, it is another kind of death. Having been created, it leaves a special sort of emptiness," from Eulogy for a Perfume.

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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: The Closet in the Classroom

Marlen Harrison·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Autoethnographic Writing Volume 1, Issue 1 (2021)

·May 26, 2022·13 min read

"I had no idea what the repercussions would be should I disclose my identity to my students. Would I be fired? Would I be questioned? Would I be told not to talk of such things? This reticence is a sad reflection on my internalized homophobia, my being still uncomfortable enough with my identity such that I had to worry about keeping it secret."

Climate Epiphany: Dante’s Hell and Our Tragedy with Nature

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·

All Content Autoethnographic Essays Climate Change Special Issue, 2022 Special Issues

·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."