“Manslation” explores several episodes from the author’s childhood and early adulthood that show the development of his sexual literacy.
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. Hate. Black. History. Month. And I’m hopeful, that in time, you will come to hate it too!
Our editor Ulla-Maija Matikainen is questioning the call of otherness and narrates her discovery about the sameness that she has seen.
"Horse, Therapy is a story of my own experience and is a commentary on trauma, both in animals and humans."
"The Christening Gown' is an autoethnographic exploration of the significance of a family heirloom for an Irish Catholic family in the USA."
"This autoethnographic story is about mental illness, specifically bi-polar disorder."
"At friends’ homes and the inexpensive trattorias where I usually ate, there was always wine and water on the table, but often only one glass."
"I’m Pinkie, the brash I don’t give a fuck alter ego of Renata Ferdinand. I am emerging from the shadows, and blissfully, with my own column."
"Not Forgotten: Another Glimpse into the Funeral Industry" is a new work of flash nonfiction from our columnist Hollace Sheppard.
"Give Me a Strawberry Cockroach" is the first article in our 2023 special issue on laughter and tells a story of Japanese language learning and performance.
"In this autoethnodrama, a woman terminates a pregnancy without telling her husband."