"This is my childhood memory of realizing the power of laughter when everything interior and exterior makes me scared."
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.
There are multiple approaches to find one's poetic voice depending on the lens one chooses as a part of the author’s creative process.
“Manslation” explores several episodes from the author’s childhood and early adulthood that show the development of his sexual literacy.
As two authors/playwrights exploring this small island on the East Coast of Canada, we write to share our own experiences and perspectives.
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?
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.
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.
Emerging Immigrant’s Accents is about how language impacts our self image as we come to understand ourselves and our cultural beings.
In Part One, I situated my work within the context of the work of writers. Now, I’m situating my work within the context of women writers.
This work is part of a larger ethnography of scars, one that addresses the intersection medicine, religion, and body politics in (among other places) Nebraska.
Atlas Markers: An Emerging Autoethnography Author’s Memo Atlas Markers n is largely a thought-piece on the development of a research...
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··11 min readWriting fiction allows me to document reality and to reimagine it, just as we can always reimagine ourselves. And that is why we need stories.