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Stray Words, Turbulent Art: Translation, or How to Love English

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·
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·November 6, 2022·4 min read
"One can’t write poetry without love. It is the strongest and the most vital root in poetry."
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New Issue! The AutoEthnographer Volume 2, Issue 1, Winter 2022

Marlen Harrison·
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·March 22, 2022·1 min read
In this new issue from The AutoEthnographer, we highlight work from authors and artists in the USA, Finland, Bangladesh/Canada, Chile/USA, and India.
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¡Aguacate! Bringing Up Bebe Bilingüe: Part 1, Whiteness and Word Gaps

Stephanie Abraham·
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·March 17, 2022·14 min read
"The words we use and how we say them are much more than sounds, they tell a story that gives us away, revealing a history about and behind us, a place and a people that we have come from."
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The Challenges of Being a Woman in Bangladesh: Meena’s Story

Aliya Khan·
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·February 16, 2022·22 min read
"My stories are meant to give women from Bangladesh a chance to show their strength and resilience. It is a way for me to try to connect with the rest of the world despite the differences in language and culture."
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The Twerking Academic: “Strong Black Woman”, a Multimedia Autoethnography

Shanita Mitchell·
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·February 10, 2022·3 min read
"At what age does a Black woman learn that it is her job to be strong?"
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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: A Pragmatic Ruin and the Objectionable Southern Woman

Katharyn Privett-Duren·
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·February 2, 2022·8 min read
"A tree once taught me that those moments of ruin are only a pause, a passage really, on the way to something else."
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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: Grieving from Miles

Saurabh Anand·
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·January 25, 2022·9 min read
I couldn't go to India for the past two years due to COVID-19 uncertainties and be with the rest of my family to help them navigate through this earth-shattering loss when they needed me the most, a sad reality of many international students.”
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Autoethnographic Poetry: “The Wrong Kind of Theme Park”

Teahl Light·
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·January 20, 2022·11 min read
“My ability to be creatively vulnerable with my mental illness as well as the experiences which contributed to it will serve as a method of self-healing.”
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Interview with poet M. Soledad Caballero, Winner of the IAANI 2022 Outstanding Book Award

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·January 13, 2022·16 min read
"I’ve already resisted that scholarship is not creative and poetry is not part of my scholarly self. I think the idea of autoethnography allows for that cultural divide between the creative and academic to be really disrupted."
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Technicolor Third Space: Why Did We Develop the AutoEthnographer?

Marlen Harrison·
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·December 31, 2021·5 min read
"In this brief, animated autoethnography, I utilize the concept of a sociocultural third space to consider why evocative autoethnography can benefit from its own literary and arts journal."
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Autoethnographic Literary Fiction & Poetry: A Woman in a Public Space

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·
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·December 23, 2021·12 min read
"A woman alone doesn’t belong to any male power or protection sphere. She can be kidnapped into fears and dreams."
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