This story explores childbirth-related trauma and postpartum mental health through the lens of a ‘good birth.’
"I danced each morning with Pina Bausch. I became her pupil lifting my leg up in the air like a flamingo except feeling more awake than I’ve ever been."
This video explores how editors have developed their approach to reviewing creative autoethnography and highlights strategies for contributors.
In this new issue from The AutoEthnographer, we follow a ballerina through the desert, glimpse into the funeral industry, and process parental grief.
In this essay, the current reality of queerness is juxtaposed against milestones in my own life as a queer man in America.
"The Christening Gown' is an autoethnographic exploration of the significance of a family heirloom for an Irish Catholic family in the USA."
In my poetry, I highlight negative depictions of Catholic religion and discuss how they differ from my own experiences as a Catholic.
In this piece, a queer university student from China reflects on his understandings of sexual and ethnic/national identities as he moves from China to the UK to study.
"Give Me a Strawberry Cockroach" is the first article in our 2023 special issue on laughter and tells a story of Japanese language learning and performance.
Leavy is more than the mother of the social fiction movement in the social sciences; she’s its fairy godmother.
Nothing prepared me for the xenophobia and homophobia I would encounter in Italy. No one warned me how to avoid becoming their victim
These pieces explore through personal experience the cultural phenomena of migrant loss of identity and subordination, post colonialism, othering