"In this autoethnodrama, a woman terminates a pregnancy without telling her husband."
Patricia Leavy·
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··11 min readWriting fiction allows me to document reality and to reimagine it, just as we can always reimagine ourselves. And that is why we need stories.
In Saying Goodbye: A Father's Last Minute Parting Gift to His Son, I channel the moments I remember from the night before my mother died.
This poem, entitled "Work Out," is about how I dealt with 2020. It's a writing exercise I didn't realize I needed to do.
In this new issue from The AutoEthnographer, we introduce new features such as book reviews and autoethnographic art.
What is autoethnography? The AutoEthnographer's international team of editors offer definitions & suggested readings.
Through all of the things that separate us, there is one universal experience that transcends all barriers: love.
"This autoethnographic essay explores in a (hopefully) creative way ideas about social class in relation to my own negotiations of identity and upbringing in eastern Sydney, Australia."
"This is my childhood memory of realizing the power of laughter when everything interior and exterior makes me scared."
This is a piece I wrote in desperation after being confronted with the failures of the foster system in the United States today.
I wrote a study of my own faith, bankrupt as it may be, using story of my father, through the lens of Jewishness as I define it for myself.
In this final installment, I recount my second month dieting with Roland Barthes.