In this story I shifted my attention to the young woman –a nurse or a volunteer– who sat beside me and held my hand throughout abortion.
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One Man’s Perspective on Grieving and Death is a narrative representation of death as a universal humanistic theme.
What happens when a witch is black? This piece is a salute to the transformational beauty of cosplay & all the laughter it inspires.
This story explores childbirth-related trauma and postpartum mental health through the lens of a ‘good birth.’
My essay tells my life story in relation to a specific moment in the history of American women’s access to abortion and reproductive justice.
The process of seeking pregnancy alone (by necessity, not choice) showed me how limited reproductive rights in the U.S. truly are—even before the recent loss of Roe vs. Wade, that policy that had so shaped my generation’s belief in our bodily autonomy.
"This is an autoethnographic narrative where I use my own marriage to tell a story about love, bodily autonomy, acceptance and illness."
This piece explores the ways in which identity and esteem are interwoven into the topic of Black hair.
How do creatives find joy in artistic performance as a form of black feminist autoethnography? Podcast & video.
"In this autoethnodrama, a woman terminates a pregnancy without telling her husband."
"Combining autoethnography and artwork, Supreme Justice aims to reveal the persistence of institutionalized oppression of women through history."
"I write at length about my experiences surviving rape and abuse as a Western woman in Japan. I was lucky to get out alive."