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Love and Loss

Aliya Khan·
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·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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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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OPETTAJA 20190917 Viittomakielen aineenopettaja Juhana Salonen, Jyväskylä. Kuvattu Jyväskylän yliopiston päärakennuksessa. Kuvaaja Hanna-Kaisa Hämäläinen

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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“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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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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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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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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Mainstream Publishing Has a God Problem: Writing Truth on the Margins

Victoria Costello·
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·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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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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Missing A Beat

Mick Donaldson·
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·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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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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