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

Stephanie Abraham·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionAutoethnographic WritingVolume 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."
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¡Aguacate!, Part II: How I Learned Two Languages

Stephanie Abraham·
All ContentAutoethnographic WritingVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
·July 18, 2022·9 min read
"In "Becoming Multilingual," part 2 of my column, "¡Aguacate! Bringing Up Bebe Bilingüe," I use autoethnography as a writing approach to capture and represent the personal experiences of myself, a qualitative researcher, who has become the researched."
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‘Surprise! Surprise!’ A Potty Training Mystery and a Misadventure

Cornelius Fortune·
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·June 25, 2023·9 min read
What this essay tries to capture is both the wonder and the inherent horror in potty training.
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“Being In Time”: China, Place Memory & Pedagogy – From Xinjiang To Shanghai

Robert Cettl·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaVolume 4, Issue 2 (2024)
·May 11, 2024·4 min read
This film explores foreign EFL teacher identity construct dialectics in contemporary China, qualified by China/West geo-political tensions.
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“Double Consciousness as a Black American”: New Video from The Twerking Academic

Shanita Mitchell·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaVolume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
·September 2, 2022·3 min read
"In the newest video from The Twerking Academic, I explore how the summer of 2020 slammed me back into an awareness of my own double consciousness as a Black American."
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“Ethology”: An Ethnographic Account of a Road Trip in East Africa

Dan Lawrence·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary FictionVolume 3, Issue 1 (2023)
·February 18, 2023·46 min read
Ethology is a highly fictionalized ethnographic account of my travels around Tanzania, East Africa during my teens.
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“I Hate Black History Month,” Pinkie Points It Out

Renata Ferdinand·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysFrom the EditorsMoreVolume 3, Issue 1 (2023)
·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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“If You Build It…”: A Glimpse into Founding a Magazine

Marlen Harrison·
All ContentFrom the EditorsVolume 1, Issue 1 (2021)
·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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“Manslation”: How Important Is Sexual Literacy?

Timothy Laurence Marsh·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 3, Issue 1 (2023)
·February 21, 2023·24 min read
“Manslation” explores several episodes from the author’s childhood and early adulthood that show the development of his sexual literacy.
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“My Voice”: Autoethnographic Poems for a New Beginning

Milton Carp·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 1, Issue 1 (2021)
·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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“This is no good”: Am I Cursed?

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All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 3, Issue 2 (2023)
·April 23, 2023·9 min read
This lighthearted essay illustrates an experience I had in Singapore while doing research for a book I was writing about spirituality.
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“World’s Greatest Man” Explores “Rice-Bowl Christianity” and Modernization in Thailand

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All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaVolume 4, Issue 1 (2024)
·February 27, 2024·3 min read
The lyrics of "World's Greatest Man" grapple with the paradoxes of participant-observation as well as the ambiguity of development work in Thailand.
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