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Interview with Crystal Sands, Author and Founder of Farmerish.net

Marlen Harrison and Crystal Sands·
All ContentInterviewsVolume 1, Issue 1 (2021)
·August 21, 2021·8 min read
"This journal is the culmination of my life’s work as a writing teacher, writer, and farmer. In the pages of this journal, you will find coverage for everything from raising chickens to jam recipes to poetry about farming and Nature."
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Interview with Poet Jacob Meadows, Author of Shades

Marlen Harrison and Jacob Meadows·
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·December 13, 2021·11 min read
"It is in finding these solutions, the tape and the glue that holds us all together, that we find the beauty of who we are as people."
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Interview with poet M. Soledad Caballero, Winner of the IAANI 2022 Outstanding Book Award

M. Soledad Caballero and Marlen Harrison·
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·January 13, 2022·16 min read
"I’ve already resisted that scholarship is not creative and poetry is not part of my scholarly self. I think the idea of autoethnography allows for that cultural divide between the creative and academic to be really disrupted."
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Opening Folklore: How Can We Shift Social Sciences Via Autoethnography?

Dilek Isler Hayirli·
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·September 1, 2022·9 min read
"In Turkey, we must consider opening folklore & the social sciences, but this time more powerfully, staggeringly, and creatively."
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Autoethnography and Culture: Exploring Embodied Inquiry with Celeste Snowber

Michelle Reale·
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·September 14, 2022·10 min read
"Autoethnography and culture: Embodied inquiry is not a formula, or methodology, but a way of being, being open to the body as a source of knowledge, wonder, difficulty, fragility and utter joy."
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New Podcast: Is Autoethnography Essential to a Successful Business? Podcast with Nadine Khair

Marlen Harrison and Nadine Khair·
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·October 18, 2022·16 min read
"Dr. Nadine Khair discusses why autoethnography is essential to successful businesses in this latest podcast."
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What Is Social Fiction? Talking Re/Invention with Patricia Leavy

Patricia Leavy and Marlen Harrison·
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·October 24, 2022·10 min read
"In our latest chat, Patricia Leavy discusses the evolution of the self-coined social fiction genre and offers a sneak peek at her latest publication, Film Blue."
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New Podcast: In What Ways Do Autoethnography & Painting Go Together?

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·November 5, 2022·15 min read
"Award-winning artist, Suzanne Hughes, talks about autoethnography and painting. Suzanne is responsible for the cover art for our special issue based on climate change."
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A Poet Investigates Privilege During Life in Nigeria

Michelle Reale and Anne McCrary Sullivan·
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·January 20, 2023·11 min read
Poet Anne McCrary Sullivan discusses her latest book Learning Calabar, Notes from a Poet’s Year in Nigeria with editor Michelle Reale.
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New Podcast: Finding Joy in Artistic Performance as Black Feminist Autoethnography

Shanita Mitchell and Renata Ferdinand·
All ContentFrom the EditorsInterviewsMorePodcastsReflections on MethodVolume 2, Issue 4 (2022)
·February 5, 2023·4 min read
How do creatives find joy in artistic performance as a form of black feminist autoethnography? Podcast & video.
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New Podcast & Video: How do Google & Autoethnography Go Together?

Marlen Harrison, Kasey McCormack, Sophie Olsen, Amanda Lapin and Addison Tice·
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·February 22, 2023·17 min read
In today's new podcast & video Marlen Harrison talks with current marketing interns about the role of culture in using Google Ads.
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A Conversation with Patricia Leavy about Writing Fiction During the Pandemic and Her New Novel, The Location Shoot

Patricia Leavy and Marlen Harrison·
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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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