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·November 1, 2024·5 min read
Book Review: Revealing the Mantra of Trauma Author’s Memo This review of The Trauma Mantras seeks to convey the profound...
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The otherness is not somewhere out there. It’s in me. Still, my search did not stop to this discovery. It took me profoundly even further. It took me to love and poetry.
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·October 1, 2023·13 min read
“Answering the Call of Conscience in the Call Out Culture” continues my accounting of, and critical reflection on, the ethical and political dimensions of having been falsely accused of sexual assault online.
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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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The Value of Celebrating Poetic Voice in Middle Age

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·April 30, 2023·12 min read
I offer the following five poems to you. I hope that when you read/hear them you see a way into your own stories and ideas of poetic voice.
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The Voice’s Standpoint in Creative Expressions: An Artist’s Perspective

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·April 13, 2023·5 min read
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. 
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How to Find Your Own Voice: Journeying in the World of Poetry

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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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·February 15, 2023·15 min read
"Bringing up Baby” is a collection of collage and erasure poems that function as praise for and critique of (white) mothering. 
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·February 15, 2023·3 min read
I. Hate. Black. History. Month. And I’m hopeful, that in time, you will come to hate it too!
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New Podcast: Finding Joy in Artistic Performance as Black Feminist Autoethnography

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·February 5, 2023·4 min read
How do creatives find joy in artistic performance as a form of black feminist autoethnography? Podcast & video.
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The Call of Otherness: Fear & Awe

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·
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·January 26, 2023·5 min read
Our editor Ulla-Maija Matikainen is questioning the call of otherness and narrates her discovery about the sameness that she has seen.
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