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Expressions of Care: How to Provide Grief Support

Lily Fessenden and Maegan Parker Brooks·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysEducationMoreReflections on MethodVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·February 11, 2025·13 min read
Through our collaborative autoethnography, we learned that intentionally spending time with grief is well worth the effort.
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Empowering The Rainbow: How to Fight The Normalization Of Toxic Masculinity

Nicole Shim·
All ContentEducationMoreVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·September 17, 2023·10 min read
I use autoethnography to provide first-hand observations in the predominantly conservative English classroom as a way to analyze and understand a rise in toxic masculinity and its detrimental impacts.
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The AutoEthnographer Is Excited to Empower Young Women through Unique Digital Mentorship

Lina Fe Simoy·
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·May 13, 2023·3 min read
In the women’s history month, The AutoEthnographer supported "Her Story Leads: Amplifying Women’s voices through digital storytelling".
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How to Find Your Own Voice: Journeying in the World of Poetry

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·
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·April 6, 2023·4 min read
A tsunami of words, images, learned and pushed feelings and thoughts go through us every day. Poetry is a way to find our own voice.
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Artistic Autoethnography: How Can We Open the Door to Boundless Artmaking?

Karenanna Boyle Creps·
All ContentEducationMoreReflections on MethodVolume 3, Issue 1 (2023)
·March 1, 2023·4 min read
I introduce artistic autoethnography and how the term a/r/tifact opens up the imagination to the possibilities of autoethnographic artmaking.   
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What Do Editors Look for When Reviewing Creative Autoethnography?

Marlen Harrison, Odessa Ogo, Shanita Mitchell, Dilek Isler Hayirli, Sandra L. Faulkner, Jessica Smartt Gullion, Jacob Meadows, Nadine Khair and Lina Fe Simoy·
All ContentEducationFrom the EditorsMoreReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 4 (2022)
·January 12, 2023·7 min read
This video explores how editors have developed their approach to reviewing creative autoethnography and highlights strategies for contributors.
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What Is The AutoEthnographer Magazine?

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·January 1, 2023·3 min read
What Is The AutoEthnographer Magazine? The AutoEthnographer’s Mission The AutoEthnographer is an award-winning, non-profit, open-access, peer-reviewed literary and arts magazine....
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What Is Autoethnography? How Can I Learn More?

Marlen Harrison, Sandra L. Faulkner, Jessica Smartt Gullion, Nadine Khair, Lina Fe Simoy, Dilek Isler Hayirli and Ulla-Maija Matikainen·
All ContentEducationFrom the EditorsMoreReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 4 (2022)
·December 12, 2022·14 min read
What is autoethnography? The AutoEthnographer's international team of editors offer definitions & suggested readings.
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Emotional Research: Performing Autoethnography at My Late Father’s Village

Dilek Isler Hayirli·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaEducationFrom the EditorsMoreReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
·November 6, 2022·13 min read
"I had not been aware that this emotional research was also performing autoethnography, collecting memories from the field"
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What Is Social Fiction? Talking Re/Invention with Patricia Leavy

Patricia Leavy and Marlen Harrison·
All ContentEducationInterviewsMoreVolume 2, Issue 4 (2022)
·October 24, 2022·10 min read
"In our latest chat, Patricia Leavy discusses the evolution of the self-coined social fiction genre and offers a sneak peek at her latest publication, Film Blue."
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Storytelling as Academic Writing: How to Embrace Creative Nonfiction

Jessica Smartt Gullion·
All ContentEducationFrom the EditorsMoreReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
·September 14, 2022·5 min read
"One way to reach broader audiences is to embrace creative nonfiction and use storytelling as academic writing."
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Autoethnography and Culture: Exploring Embodied Inquiry with Celeste Snowber

Michelle Reale·
All ContentEducationInterviewsMoreVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
·September 14, 2022·10 min read
"Autoethnography and culture: Embodied inquiry is not a formula, or methodology, but a way of being, being open to the body as a source of knowledge, wonder, difficulty, fragility and utter joy."
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