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#blackwomanatwork: How to Make Yourself Mobbing-proof

Camille Goodison·
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·October 13, 2024·12 min read
“blackwomanatwork” came out of my experiences working in academia as a first-generation immigrant black woman from the Caribbean.
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5 Poems about Living with ME/CFS

Mary Ann Honaker·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·February 11, 2025·10 min read
I use poetry to describe living with ME/CFS, an illness that is chronic and invisible, thus bringing awareness to this little known diagnosis.
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A Simple Text, A Complex Reckoning: On Sisters and Queers

Jen Majoor·
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·October 12, 2024·8 min read
It is a reckoning on sisters and queers after themes of family violence, sibling disconnection and queer isolation emerge.
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Breaking Free: Reclaiming Authenticity in a Capitalist World

Laura Babb·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·February 5, 2025·7 min read
In Breaking Free: Reclaiming Authenticity in a Capitalist World, I reveal how I overcame my mental health challenges and reconnected with my true self discovering the benefits of holistic therapies and shamanic healing.
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Breathe New Life: Prison Yoga

Sylvia Sensiper·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·February 11, 2025·26 min read
This essay is about my experience teaching yoga in a California prison.
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Echoes of War: Poems on Combat, Culture, and Survival

Roger Camp·
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·December 14, 2024·5 min read
Military culture includes a rich collection of symbols, beliefs, values, language, dress, behaviors, relationships, and work.
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Eternal Glow: Black Womanhood’s Story Of Love and Resilience

Venus Watson·
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·November 7, 2024·3 min read
Eternal Glow: Black Womanhood’s Story Of Love and Resilience Author’s Memo These three poems are autoethnographic as they utilize personal...
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Expressions of Care: How to Provide Grief Support

Lily Fessenden and Maegan Parker Brooks·
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·February 11, 2025·13 min read
Through our collaborative autoethnography, we learned that intentionally spending time with grief is well worth the effort.
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Heavy Machinery: How to Write the Rust Belt

Jodie Childers·
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·October 13, 2024·6 min read
Hard Water: An Autoethnography of American Rust is concerned with the spatial formations of capitalism and the psychology of class hegemony.
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How to Fragment and Unite: An Autoethnography of Collage and Poems

Krzysztof Konecki and Alec Grant·
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·September 24, 2024·28 min read
We address how to fragment and unite in this autoethnographic study, which we developed over the Messenger App. It utilises poetry and collage around death, loneliness, postmodern culture, and the latter’s related oppressive discourses and language, and alienation.
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My Body Is a Suitcase: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Links between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders

Elisabeth Hanscombe·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·November 1, 2024·30 min read
My Body Is a Suitcase: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Links between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders Author’s memo In...
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Poetry Out of the Closet: Towards a Queer Poetics

Susan Spilecki·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·February 5, 2025·12 min read
In this work, I unpack how realizing my queerness has influenced how I write my poetry.
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