"At what age does a Black woman learn that it is her job to be strong?"
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- Bodily Autonomy Special Issue, 2022-23
- Celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy's Social Fiction 2024
- Climate Change Special Issue, 2022
- Laughter Special Issue, 2023
- Queer Special Issue, 2023-24
- Volume 1, Issue 1 (2021)
- Volume 1, Issue 2 (2021)
- Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022)
- Volume 2, Issue 2 (2022)
- Volume 2, Issue 3 (2022)
- Volume 2, Issue 4 (2022)
- Volume 3, Issue 1 (2023)
- Volume 3, Issue 2 (2023)
- Volume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
- Volume 3, Issue 4 (2023)
- Volume 4, Issue 1 (2024)
- Volume 4, Issue 2 (2024)
- Volume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
- Volume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
"A tree once taught me that those moments of ruin are only a pause, a passage really, on the way to something else."
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.”
“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.”
"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."
"This autoethnographic poem is a question about the power of autoethnography in the face of the climate crisis. It is an expression of my dark fears, my depression that keeps me away from writing."
Marlen Harrison·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaEducationFrom the EditorsMoreReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 1 (2022)
··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."
Ulla-Maija Matikainen·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary FictionAutoethnographic PoetryAutoethnographic WritingVolume 2, Issue 1 (2022)
··12 min read"A woman alone doesn’t belong to any male power or protection sphere. She can be kidnapped into fears and dreams."
Volume 1, Issue 2, Summer 2021
Diane Riggins·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysAutoethnographic WritingReflections on MethodVolume 1, Issue 2 (2021)
··5 min read"My thesis began to unfold after doing some research on my final topic idea about Tolkien’s world, female characters, female gamers, and the stereotype that females are the love interests or damsels in distress. I chose autoethnography because it allowed me to add that personal angle to the paper because I am a female writer, reader, and gamer."
"It is in finding these solutions, the tape and the glue that holds us all together, that we find the beauty of who we are as people."
"She has been so careful at work; she has had all of her shopping delivered for weeks, actually for months, now; she's even wiped down the items with bleach as they are delivered, and still does. How can this have happened?"
