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New Palace Bakery and Other Fuzzy Memories of Detroit

Robyn Autry·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 1 (2024)
·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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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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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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Love and Loss

Aliya Khan·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 1 (2024)
·January 23, 2024·19 min read
This is from the experience of losing someone who you thought would be a part of your family, only to realize their journey was different.
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An Autoethnography on Autoimmunity: The Truth About Life with Chronic Illness

Kerry Leccese·
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·January 25, 2024·26 min read
This work addresses the issue of young women being underserved as health care patients, specifically through the lens of medical gaslighting.
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Shifting Gently from a Well-lived Life: A Beautiful Living and Passing

Tania Hume·
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·January 29, 2024·17 min read
It recounts vignettes of my’s dad’s life, his final week, the deep bond with family and friends and the ease with which he let go of life.
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Psychologist’s Mind Invaded by Doppelganger on the East End

Harvey Lieberman·
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·January 29, 2024·10 min read
The essay tells the story of the author's attempt to bridge the gap in political beliefs between himself and his uncle.
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Emerging Immigrant’s Accents: This is the Spoken Birthright of Bicultural Spanglish

Kayla Pica Williams·
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·February 11, 2024·8 min read
Emerging Immigrant’s Accents is about how language impacts our self image as we come to understand ourselves and our cultural beings.
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Entanglements of the Mind, Soul, and Body: A Collage

Johanna Keene, Mellinee Lesley and Elizabeth Stewart·
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·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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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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Savories: Dieting with Roland Barthes One New York Spring

Eric Daffron·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 1 (2024)
·February 20, 2024·10 min read
In this final installment, I recount my second month dieting with Roland Barthes.
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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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