This lighthearted essay illustrates an experience I had in Singapore while doing research for a book I was writing about spirituality.
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.
Ethology is a highly fictionalized ethnographic account of my travels around Tanzania, East Africa during my teens.
I couldn't go to India for the past two years due to COVID-19 uncertainties and be with the rest of my family to help them navigate through this earth-shattering loss when they needed me the most, a sad reality of many international students.”
"This autoethnographic story is about mental illness, specifically bi-polar disorder."
I provide context by referencing theory and practice in narrative medicine and current literary criticism around trauma plots.
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.
"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."
"Ami Tau Ami (I Am Who I Am), is a story about a mother letting go of her own dreams but passing it to her daughter, as my mother did for me."
I share the complexity of my frustration about a failed site visit to the British Museum and wonder about the meaning of the experience.
Terry Graff·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaAutoethnographic EssaysClimate Change Special Issue, 2022
··13 min read"In retrospect, it was inevitable that birds and machines would converge in my work as a life-long exploration and expression of the relationship between nature and technology through the creation of avian cyborgs, the genesis of which can be traced back to my early drawings of robots and of the bygone birds of my childhood."
In this 2nd of my Processing Parental Grief series, Calliandra receives a letter from her mother weeks after her death.
"She has been so careful at work; she has had all of her shopping delivered for weeks, actually for months, now; she's even wiped down the items with bleach as they are delivered, and still does. How can this have happened?"