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Cruella de Vil, from ”101 Dalmatians,” in Real Life

David Jenkins·
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·December 8, 2023·6 min read
This piece situates me in a set of sour in-laws relationships that also involved the legal system and it is in the form of autoethnography.
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Operating on the Funny Bone: Poems from a Heart Surgeon

Flavian Mark Lupinetti·
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·November 9, 2023·7 min read
Humor acts as a defense mechanism, a pressure release valve, a teaching tool.  As a heart surgeon, I have used laughter for all these reasons.
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How to Make Students Laugh in Spanish: Some Serious Considerations

Annie Abbott·
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·October 28, 2023·9 min read
However, this autoethnographic piece helped me recognize the importance of levity even when the intellectual content is heavy.
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How to Survive a Cult in Nebraska

Alphonso Juries·
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·October 17, 2023·13 min read
This work is part of a larger ethnography of scars, one that addresses the intersection medicine, religion, and body politics in (among other places) Nebraska.
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Camping and Building Powerful Connections at Bull Trout Lake

Heidi Naylor·
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·October 1, 2023·15 min read
is an essay about the way technology can intrude and obscure what may be our most important human experiences
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After the Hate Speech Comes the Free Dessert

Emily Hall·
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·September 28, 2023·11 min read
This piece recounts a trip I took to the Czech Republic and it is proof that language barriers similarly embolden people to speak cruelly.
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Anaïs: A Startling And Memorable Encounter At The Vet

A Startling and Memorable Encounter at the Vet

Dominique Elliott·
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·August 11, 2023·2 min read
This artwork is based on a startling and memorable encounter at the local vet while attempting to get Anaïs spayed.
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The Twerking Academic: What Happens When A Witch Is Black & Beautiful?

Shanita Mitchell·
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·July 20, 2023·5 min read
What happens when a witch is black? This piece is a salute to the transformational beauty of cosplay & all the laughter it inspires. 
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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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The Epidemic No One Talked About: A Love Letter

Ilika Tripathi·
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·May 19, 2023·8 min read
This is a love letter to my people, my family and a version of me trying to overcome the trauma of almost seeing their mother die.
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Man of Song: Faith, An Autoethnographic Elegy for My Father

Nathan Pessaroff·
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·March 31, 2023·20 min read
I wrote a study of my own faith, bankrupt as it may be, using story of my father, through the lens of Jewishness as I define it for myself.
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From the Current Special Issue: Laughter and Estrangement

Rina Palumbo·
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·March 10, 2023·5 min read
"This is my childhood memory of realizing the power of laughter when everything interior and exterior makes me scared."
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