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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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With Big Plans and Best Intentions: Uncovering Hidden Tesserae

Diane Kuthy·
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·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·
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·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·
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·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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“World’s Greatest Man” Explores “Rice-Bowl Christianity” and Modernization in Thailand

Benjamin Fairfield·
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·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·
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·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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Savories: Dieting with Roland Barthes One New York Spring

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·February 20, 2024·10 min read
In this final installment, I recount my second month dieting with Roland Barthes.
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Mainstream Publishing Has a God Problem: Writing Truth on the Margins

Victoria Costello·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary FictionVolume 4, Issue 1 (2024)
·February 14, 2024·11 min read
I provide context by referencing theory and practice in narrative medicine and current literary criticism around trauma plots.
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Entanglements of the Mind, Soul, and Body: A Collage

Johanna Keene, Mellinee Lesley and Elizabeth Stewart·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaVolume 4, Issue 1 (2024)
·February 11, 2024·4 min read
“Entanglements of the Mind, Soul, and Body” details our journey as researchers utilizing narrative collage and collage portraits as a tool for data analysis.
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