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An Experimental Film About Television & the Quick Prize of Midnight Plasticity

Devin Welch·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·August 30, 2023·3 min read
The poem driving this experimental film about television considers the insomniacs who wake at the same time each night in rhythm.
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Empowering The Rainbow: How to Fight The Normalization Of Toxic Masculinity

Nicole Shim·
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·September 17, 2023·10 min read
I use autoethnography to provide first-hand observations in the predominantly conservative English classroom as a way to analyze and understand a rise in toxic masculinity and its detrimental impacts.
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Four Essays on Being Trans in the Anthropocene: Milk

Aislin Neufeldt·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·August 31, 2023·17 min read
What is my responsibility as a trans feminine person when the human-induced strain on the planet is the driver of the climate crisis?
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Good Birth: The Underrecognized Risks of a “Successful” Labor and Delivery

Lisa Winters·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary FictionVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·July 7, 2023·16 min read
This story explores childbirth-related trauma and postpartum mental health through the lens of a ‘good birth.’
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Jesus and Fentanyl: A Mortician’s Perspective

Hollace Sheppard·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·September 12, 2023·13 min read
Jesus and Fentanyl: A Mortician's Perspective is actually thoughts from a funeral director and also an ode to an overdose victim.
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Life in Okinawa Under the American Military

Primo Ventello·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·July 5, 2023·25 min read
“Letter from Okinawa” describes my research and observations into the impact the U.S. military has had on the island, and tells the story of the Japanese government’s historical culpability by colonizing, controlling, and discriminating against the island.
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Negative Depictions of the Catholic Religion: Be Not Afraid, Never

Kristen Lanerie·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·September 10, 2023·6 min read
In my poetry, I highlight negative depictions of Catholic religion and discuss how they differ from my own experiences as a Catholic.
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One Man’s Perspective on Grieving and Death

Anthony Domenick·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·August 22, 2023·30 min read
One Man’s Perspective on Grieving and Death is a narrative representation of death as a universal humanistic theme.
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Panadero’s Death: His Sweet Bread, Never Absent Bolillo and Our Beautiful Pan Dulce

Francisco J. De León Alonso·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary FictionVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·July 3, 2023·9 min read
This writing is based on storytelling, common in Mexican culture.
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Renata Ferdinand·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·August 7, 2023·3 min read
My weird depression showed up this summer like “hey sis!” And I was like “fuck my life”! I wasn’t ready. This time, it caught me off guard.
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Poems As a Form of Powerful Activism and Barrier-breakers

Sophia Falco·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·September 15, 2023·6 min read
Poems As a Form of Powerful Activism and Barrier-breakers is a compilation of three poems which mean a lot for me.
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Poetry Helped Me Reclaim My History: Poems of/from Photos

Paul lieber·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·August 4, 2023·12 min read
The dynamic taking place in these poems was autoethnography, a hybrid of my investigation of the 1960's coupled with my personal experience.
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