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“If You Build It…”: A Glimpse into Founding a Magazine

Marlen Harrison·
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·August 13, 2021·9 min read
"First and foremost, one has to have the belief that if he builds the field, the major players are going to show up for the game. What has most surprised and moved me, however, has been the showing up. Indeed, folks have been showing up each week since the project's inception in late May."
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“My Voice”: Autoethnographic Poems for a New Beginning

Milton Carp·
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·September 21, 2021·13 min read
"My poems are not entirely mine. They belong to the people and events of my passage through life. For once the dam is breached its contents flow unabridged. - Milton Carp, poet at 91"
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A Quest for Social Justice: Notes on an Encounter

Guillermo Rebollo Gil·
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·November 6, 2022·18 min read
“A Quest for Social Justice: Notes on an Encounter” continues my accounting of having been falsely accused of sexual assault online.
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Autoethnographic Essay: The Minority in American Literature

Olivia M. Ojeda·
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·September 16, 2021·5 min read
"I have personally been that teenager, marking down “white” on a school application, hesitating to answer when an Anglo-American asked me “what are you?”, and leaving those experiences with a deeper sense of displacement."
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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: Political Correctness – The Dilemma of The Young

Tala Toubassi·
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·August 27, 2021·7 min read
"For the first time since my adolescence, I am recognizing that I don’t have to believe what everyone believes, nor do I have to base my morals on faceless strangers who don’t know who I am, or what my experiences are."
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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: The Closet in the Classroom

Marlen Harrison·
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·May 26, 2022·13 min read
"I had no idea what the repercussions would be should I disclose my identity to my students. Would I be fired? Would I be questioned? Would I be told not to talk of such things? This reticence is a sad reflection on my internalized homophobia, my being still uncomfortable enough with my identity such that I had to worry about keeping it secret."
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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: The Reluctant Feminist – My Personal Relationship with Two Women Named Emily

Jen Leire·
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·September 2, 2021·15 min read
"For me, being a feminist simply means I am a strong, independent woman who has ideas and thoughts of her own; but it also means something else, which is an idea that confuses even me. I mean, how could I be a feminist when I am also a conservative woman?"
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Autoethnographic Poetry: “Tired”

Jacob Meadows·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 1, Issue 1 (2021)
·July 6, 2021·7 min read
“Tired,” the titular poem and the collection at large, is an autoethnography looking at the cause of so much pain, so much fatigue. Anthropomorphizing the feeling of being tired gave me creative license to dramatize and explore the real experiences of needing a break...
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Black Feminist Grit: “A Seat at the Table” with The Twerking Academic

Shanita Mitchell·
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·November 7, 2021·3 min read
“A Seat at the Table” is the autoethnographic manifestation of my vulnerability, anger, and anguish, of my black feminist grit."
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Flash Nonfiction: The Decision to Medicate

Gianina Ainsley Romito·
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·July 10, 2021·3 min read
"We were constantly in fear of her hitting or pushing a friend, destroying a friend's toy, or throwing a block at someone’s head. We started to isolate ourselves because we were embarrassed of how our child acted around others."
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Interview with Crystal Sands, Author and Founder of Farmerish.net

Marlen Harrison and Crystal Sands·
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·August 21, 2021·8 min read
"This journal is the culmination of my life’s work as a writing teacher, writer, and farmer. In the pages of this journal, you will find coverage for everything from raising chickens to jam recipes to poetry about farming and Nature."
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Jay & June, Part II: Under His Eye

Jacob Meadows·
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·September 14, 2021·4 min read
"If abortion can be banned, largely due to Christian beliefs, what is to stop an overturning of the legalization of gay marriage or the disestablishment of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?” If The Handmaid’s Tale taught me anything, it is to never believe that I am truly safe, untouchable."
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