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Missing A Beat

Mick Donaldson·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary FictionVolume 4, Issue 1 (2024)
·March 19, 2024·28 min read
Missing A Beat examines the journey of two brothers as they attempt to leave behind a past marred by domestic violence but are presented with a choice that threatens the sibling bonds that have been their life raft.
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Social Fiction: How Leavy Pioneers a New Genre

Christine Sleeter·
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·March 15, 2024·23 min read
Christine Sleeter writes about Dr. Patricia Leavy's new genre, Sleeter's own books and her reflections on the social fiction series.
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Asexual and Aromantic: Exploring Life Alone but Not Lonely 

Shanita Mitchell·
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·March 12, 2024·2 min read
The focus of this piece is to highlight and celebrate the asexual and aromantic community and what it means to exist outside of the expectation to be partnered.
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With Big Plans and Best Intentions: Uncovering Hidden Tesserae

Diane Kuthy·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 1 (2024)
·March 9, 2024·11 min read
Michael: Tesserae 1 is part of a series written about a two-year community arts fellowship I had with a Baltimore City public middle school and surrounding communities to demonstrate the power of art for community organizing.
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Surreal Seclusion: Helpless to Time

Peter MacDonald and Spencer FitzGerald·
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·March 9, 2024·8 min read
As two authors/playwrights exploring this small island on the East Coast of Canada, we write to share our own experiences and perspectives.
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Full Disclosure: Echoes of Home and Reflections on Heritage and Privilege

Peter Viola·
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·March 7, 2024·8 min read
Through these reflections on heritage, I delve into being a child of parents who immigrated from the Bronx to a suburban lifestyle.
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Four Essays on Being Trans in the Anthropocene: Horses

Aislin Neufeldt·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 4, Issue 1 (2024)
·March 5, 2024·12 min read
MILK, ANTHOLOGIES, HORSES, & JOUISSANCE contained work as a meta-performance of the idea of texts passing through other texts.
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Asian Other: A Young Man’s Reflections on Sexuality, Ethnicity and Identity

Hongwei Bao·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 1 (2024)
·March 3, 2024·9 min read
In this piece, a queer university student from China reflects on his understandings of sexual and ethnic/national identities as he moves from China to the UK to study.
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An Isolated Routine of Boxing to Work out Worry

Zorina Exie Frey·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 1 (2024)
·March 2, 2024·6 min read
This poem, entitled "Work Out," is about how I dealt with 2020. It's a writing exercise I didn't realize I needed to do.
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Between Low-Fat Love and A Big Life

U. Melissa Anyiwo·
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·February 27, 2024·31 min read
This piece is intended to give you a sense of the ways in which I use Low-Fat Love in the classroom and why just using it makes the world a better place.
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“World’s Greatest Man” Explores “Rice-Bowl Christianity” and Modernization in Thailand

Benjamin Fairfield·
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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I’d Say I Was a Runner

Trelaine Ito·
All ContentAutoethnographic Flash NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 1 (2024)
·February 26, 2024·6 min read
In a single paragraph that represents one long thought, “I’d say I was a runner” explores the act of running as a form of self-therapy.
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