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Syrian Identity and Academic Self: Emerging Research or Ruthless Methodology?

Ataa Alsalloum·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·September 10, 2024·23 min read
Syrian Identity and Academic Self: Emerging Research or Ruthless Methodology seeks to illuminate a personal reflection that sparked a unique line of inquiry, ultimately leading to an innovative exploration within my research project.
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A Hard Look at Home: On the Paradoxes of Place

Jesse Curran·
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·August 21, 2024·9 min read
I channel Kincaid’s ironic and critical tone, while atoning for my failures to recognize dominant racist and classist discourses.
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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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The Road To Hell: Monstrous Ethnographies and Research Extraction

Aisling Walsh·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·August 11, 2024·8 min read
This piece is a creative reflection which emerged out of the auto-ethnographic reflections from my PhD around research extraction.
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Colorless People: “Know Better, Do Better”

Catherine Vandermal·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·August 7, 2024·2 min read
Can a colorless person have any sense of what it feels like to be prejudged against, before “the you -  inside yourself” opens your eyes in the morning?
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You Need to Know How to Escape the Perils of Capitalist Mental Entrapment 

Laura Babb·
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·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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Astonishing Truth: Abortion is Everyone’s Beeswax

Nancy Jorgensen·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·July 21, 2024·5 min read
Madison, Wisconsin is full of surprises, sometimes entertaining, always enlightening. But I didn’t plan for an abortion protest during a family weekend.
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Being Bi: Craving Acceptance in a Divisive Culture War

R. Adam Wright·
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·July 5, 2024·8 min read
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.
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Buried Under Identities. How to Free My Sense of Self?

Kara Thorndike·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·July 5, 2024·27 min read
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.
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Autoethnographic Literary FictionAutoethnographic WritingVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·June 30, 2024·11 min read
This piece of original short fiction contains plot elements based on my recent adventures hiking remote trails in Ecuador and Colorado.
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Spiritual Garnish: The Truth About Western Yoga Spaces

Adam McDade·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·June 23, 2024·16 min read
Written by a white, cisgender, male yoga practitioner and newly qualified teacher from a working-class, Northern English background, this account seeks to elucidate upon how the issues noted may manifest.
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The Crevasse: A Love Letter

Mary Salome·
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·June 16, 2024·10 min read
I wrote “The Crevasse: A Love Letter” to help me grapple with confusing changes to the terrain of my life.
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