Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)

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Autoethnographic Literary Fiction & Poetry: A Woman in a Public Space

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Fiction Autoethnographic Poetry Autoethnographic Writing Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)

·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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Technicolor Third Space: Why Did We Develop the AutoEthnographer?

Marlen Harrison·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Education From the Editors More Reflections on Method Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)

·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."

I Was a Bell poems by Soledad Caballero cover art by Caitlin Sacks

Interview with poet M. Soledad Caballero, Winner of the IAANI 2022 Outstanding Book Award

M. Soledad Caballero and Marlen Harrison·

All Content Interviews More Reflections on Method Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)

·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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Autoethnographic Poetry: “The Wrong Kind of Theme Park”

Teahl Light·

All Content Autoethnographic Poetry Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)

·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.”

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 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."

The Twerking Academic: “Strong Black Woman”, a Multimedia Autoethnography

Shanita Mitchell·

All Content Autoethnographic Art & Multimedia Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)

·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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The Challenges of Being a Woman in Bangladesh: Meena’s Story

Aliya Khan·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Fiction Autoethnographic Writing Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)

·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."

¡Aguacate! Bringing Up Bebe Bilingüe: Part 1, Whiteness and Word Gaps

Stephanie Abraham·

All Content Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction Autoethnographic Writing Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)

·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."