"My parents drank wine with dinner every night. There’s nothing remarkable about that, but to a kid growing up in Mid-Missouri it was weird."
We invite you to participate in National Poetry month with us by reading and writing over at The AutoEthnographer's new Facebook group.
In the women’s history month, The AutoEthnographer supported "Her Story Leads: Amplifying Women’s voices through digital storytelling".
Narrating Estrangement is written by those who have decided to distance themselves from, or have been driven out by, their families.
This autoethnographic account explores the complex relationship between language and identity.
I strived to represent the experience of being a pediatric healthcare worker during COVID.
Editor Guillermo Gil's latest book review examines Chin who highlights her relationship to things, and/or her obsessing over wanting and buying things, and many more.
This piece on hair describes how ideas of what is and is not fashionable, as depicted in popular media, can indelibly affect one’s self-perception and identity.
I offer the following five poems to you. I hope that when you read/hear them you see a way into your own stories and ideas of poetic voice.
This particular piece, "What is Human, Remains" looks back at my first year as a teacher, and the unexpected activism in my students.
Ulla-Maija Matikainen·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysAutoethnographic PoetryEducationFrom the EditorsVolume 3, Issue 2 (2023)
··4 min read A tsunami of words, images, learned and pushed feelings and thoughts go through us every day. Poetry is a way to find our own voice.
There are multiple approaches to find one's poetic voice depending on the lens one chooses as a part of the author’s creative process.