"When I review evocative autoethnography I look for that layer in the contribution that will entertain and connect to a cultural issue."
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.
"Horse, Therapy is a story of my own experience and is a commentary on trauma, both in animals and humans."
U. Melissa Anyiwo·
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··31 min readThis 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.
Ulla-Maija Matikainen·
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··4 min read A tsunami of words, images, learned and pushed feelings and thoughts go through us every day. Poetry is a way to find our own voice.
Christine Sleeter·
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··23 min readChristine Sleeter writes about Dr. Patricia Leavy's new genre, Sleeter's own books and her reflections on the social fiction series.
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.
What is autoethnography? The AutoEthnographer's international team of editors offer definitions & suggested readings.
"I’m Pinkie, the brash I don’t give a fuck alter ego of Renata Ferdinand. I am emerging from the shadows, and blissfully, with my own column."
"It is my hope that these words will serve as the beginning of an ongoing dialogue about what it means to live autoethnography."
In the following interview with award-winning author, Patricia Leavy, we discuss writing fiction and her new novel Hollyland.
This is a conversation with Patricia Leavy about writing fiction during the pandemic and her new novel, The Location Shoot.
