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Why Is Sign Language an Important Part of a Deaf Child’s Identity Development?

Juhana Salonen·
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·January 21, 2024·14 min read
This essay and video introduce an autoethnographic study of my life as a deaf child in Finland learning sign language.
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A World in Crisis: A Test of Survival

Laurel Feigenbaum·
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·January 19, 2024·8 min read
I worry about survival. Bluntly put, according to the Academy of Sciences almost every person on earth will be affected by climate change.
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Little Red: The Truth About Growing Up Queer And South-Asian

Sam Ahmed·
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·January 12, 2024·3 min read
Overall, "Little Red" encompasses queerness, womanhood, and the implications of growing into an identity that isn't cherished by society.
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New Palace Bakery and Other Fuzzy Memories of Detroit

Robyn Autry·
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·January 12, 2024·18 min read
It grew out of my personal experience researching Black history museums; but in reality, it began a lot earlier, maybe before I was born.
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The Power of Trans Empathy: Recollecting Unconditional Community Nurturing

Raine Grayson·
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·December 11, 2023·11 min read
I share real world examples of why I believe the trans community uses empathy as a powerful tool to combat transphobia and promote self-love.
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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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Saying Goodbye: A Father’s Last Minute Parting Gift to His Son

Michelle Shreeve·
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·December 5, 2023·14 min read
In Saying Goodbye: A Father's Last Minute Parting Gift to His Son, I channel the moments I remember from the night before my mother died.
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Of the Monsters They Cannot See – Anxiety Tales

Lucy Steward·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 3, Issue 4 (2023)
·November 29, 2023·4 min read
This sestina poem reflects and validates my own personal experience as a 14-year-old who was dealing with something I couldn’t initially even name; anxiety.
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Four Essays on Being Trans in the Anthropocene: Anthologies

Aislin Neufeldt·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 3, Issue 4 (2023)
·November 28, 2023·9 min read
“Four Essays on Being Trans in the Anthropocene” in one of autoethnographic works on my queerness and informed by speculative anthropology.
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How to Get Lost In Xenophobia and Homophobia

André Wilson·
Autoethnographic Literary NonfictionQueer Special Issue, 2023-24
·November 21, 2023·12 min read
Nothing prepared me for the xenophobia and homophobia I would encounter in Italy. No one warned me how to avoid becoming their victim
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Corporate America: The Hidden Realities of Loneliness, Absurdity and Cruelty

Dustin Grinnell·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary FictionVolume 3, Issue 4 (2023)
·November 13, 2023·34 min read
In my short story, “Cubicle,” a student filmmaker discovers loneliness, absurdity, and cruelty in the halls of Corporate America—but also finds his artistic voice.
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Odesa Revisited: Imagination and Terror                   

Michael Serby·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary FictionVolume 3, Issue 4 (2023)
·November 12, 2023·12 min read
Odesa addresses the traumas of struggling immigrants, who face rejection and shunning rather than acceptance and understanding.
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