"My poems for this special issue seek to document a history of my choice, not just personally but humanly, to use autoethnography to weave through the personal and the political."
"The words we use and how we say them are much more than sounds, they tell a story that gives us away, revealing a history about and behind us, a place and a people that we have come from."
Ethology is a highly fictionalized ethnographic account of my travels around Tanzania, East Africa during my teens.
What happens when a witch is black? This piece is a salute to the transformational beauty of cosplay & all the laughter it inspires.
However, this autoethnographic piece helped me recognize the importance of levity even when the intellectual content is heavy.
My poem “Week After” explores my experience with assault, rape, and emotional abuse in a year and a half long relationship with an older man.
Sandra L. Faulkner·
All ContentAutoethnographic Art & MultimediaAutoethnographic PoetryFrom the EditorsVolume 3, Issue 1 (2023)
··15 min read"Bringing up Baby” is a collection of collage and erasure poems that function as praise for and critique of (white) mothering.
The otherness is not somewhere out there. It’s in me. Still, my search did not stop to this discovery. It took me profoundly even further. It took me to love and poetry.
In Part One, I situated my work within the context of the work of writers. Now, I’m situating my work within the context of women writers.
This piece recounts a trip I took to the Czech Republic and it is proof that language barriers similarly embolden people to speak cruelly.
"This autoethnographic poetry is born of my personal experience, witness, as well as currently chronicled and ancestral lore."
One Man’s Perspective on Grieving and Death is a narrative representation of death as a universal humanistic theme.