Zona. I have always thought that names of diseases sound so beautiful. This is the story of a disease that lives with me.
"My Old Kentucky Homo," highlights my failure to assimilate into the community in which I still live, fourteen years later.
I explore the intersection of queer identity and popular culture through the lens of my adolescent crush on rock legend Tina Turner.
These pieces explore through personal experience the cultural phenomena of migrant loss of identity and subordination, post colonialism, othering
"It is my hope that these words will serve as the beginning of an ongoing dialogue about what it means to live autoethnography."
“Entanglements of the Mind, Soul, and Body” details our journey as researchers utilizing narrative collage and collage portraits as a tool for data analysis.
After 34 years of monogamy I entered the dating app world and began writing the first weekend I was single. This is story of my experience.
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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.
This piece recounts a trip I took to the Czech Republic and it is proof that language barriers similarly embolden people to speak cruelly.
However, this autoethnographic piece helped me recognize the importance of levity even when the intellectual content is heavy.
I strived to represent the experience of being a pediatric healthcare worker during COVID.
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.