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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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Book Review: Revealing the Mantra of Trauma

Emily LaVergne·
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·November 1, 2024·5 min read
Book Review: Revealing the Mantra of Trauma Author’s Memo This review of The Trauma Mantras seeks to convey the profound...
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Book Review: Patricia Leavy’s Writing and Publishing Qualitative Research

Dilek Isler Hayirli·
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·June 4, 2024·4 min read
Leavy’s Writing and Publishing Qualitative Research is a comprehensive guide that navigates the intricate landscape of qualitative research from the writing phase to publishing.
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Social Fiction: How Leavy Pioneers a New Genre

Christine Sleeter·
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·March 15, 2024·23 min read
Christine Sleeter writes about Dr. Patricia Leavy's new genre, Sleeter's own books and her reflections on the social fiction series.
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Between Low-Fat Love and A Big Life

U. Melissa Anyiwo·
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·February 27, 2024·31 min read
This piece is intended to give you a sense of the ways in which I use Low-Fat Love in the classroom and why just using it makes the world a better place.
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Celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy’s Body of Work: An Introduction to This Special Issue

Laurel Richardson and U. Melissa Anyiwo·
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·February 13, 2024·14 min read
Laurel Richardson and U. Melissa Anyiwo writes the introduction to this special issue celebrating Dr. Patricia Leavy’s work.
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·February 12, 2024·9 min read
The Autoethnographer, an award-winning, non-profit, peer-reviewed, digital literary & arts magazine, invites you to submit your work.
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Editorial: On Social Fiction, Stories, and the 2024 Special Issue of The AutoEthnographer

Patricia Leavy·
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·February 11, 2024·11 min read
Writing fiction allows me to document reality and to reimagine it, just as we can always reimagine ourselves. And that is why we need stories.
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The Call of Otherness: Love and Poetry

Ulla-Maija Matikainen·
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·November 5, 2023·4 min read
The otherness is not somewhere out there. It’s in me. Still, my search did not stop to this discovery. It took me profoundly even further. It took me to love and poetry.
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Answering the Call of Conscience in Call Out Culture

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·October 1, 2023·13 min read
“Answering the Call of Conscience in the Call Out Culture” continues my accounting of, and critical reflection on, the ethical and political dimensions of having been falsely accused of sexual assault online.
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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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A Conversation with Patricia Leavy about Writing Fiction During the Pandemic and Her New Novel, The Location Shoot

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·September 10, 2023·9 min read
This is a conversation with Patricia Leavy about writing fiction during the pandemic and her new novel, The Location Shoot.
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