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Recipes of Life: How Kitchens Preserve Intergenerational Narratives

Tracy Luciani·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·November 16, 2024·13 min read
The cultural issues being addressed are how intergenerational knowledge is passed down between women and girls in the kitchen.
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Eternal Glow: Black Womanhood’s Story Of Love and Resilience

Venus Watson·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·November 7, 2024·3 min read
Eternal Glow: Black Womanhood’s Story Of Love and Resilience Author’s Memo These three poems are autoethnographic as they utilize personal...
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Book Review: Revealing the Mantra of Trauma

Emily LaVergne·
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·November 1, 2024·5 min read
Book Review: Revealing the Mantra of Trauma Author’s Memo This review of The Trauma Mantras seeks to convey the profound...
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Toxic Culture: Revealing Why Capitalist Ideals Make You Sick

Laura Babb·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·November 1, 2024·6 min read
An empowered inner authenticity that supersedes the pressures faced by twenty-first century generations - striving for an unattainable false perfect ‘self’. 
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My Body Is a Suitcase: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Links between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders

Elisabeth Hanscombe·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·November 1, 2024·30 min read
My Body Is a Suitcase: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Links between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Eating Disorders Author’s memo In...
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Heavy Machinery: How to Write the Rust Belt

Jodie Childers·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·October 13, 2024·6 min read
Hard Water: An Autoethnography of American Rust is concerned with the spatial formations of capitalism and the psychology of class hegemony.
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#blackwomanatwork: How to Make Yourself Mobbing-proof

Camille Goodison·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionAutoethnographic WritingVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·October 13, 2024·12 min read
“blackwomanatwork” came out of my experiences working in academia as a first-generation immigrant black woman from the Caribbean.
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What Happens When You Surrender to Mainstream Capitalist Power Dynamics

Laura Babb·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·September 24, 2024·7 min read
In this four-part series, I’ll take you back through my journey from the beginning. To explore how the conditioning of the Western environment I was born into served in disconnecting me from my own inner authenticity.
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How to Fragment and Unite: An Autoethnography of Collage and Poems

Krzysztof Konecki and Alec Grant·
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·September 24, 2024·28 min read
We address how to fragment and unite in this autoethnographic study, which we developed over the Messenger App. It utilises poetry and collage around death, loneliness, postmodern culture, and the latter’s related oppressive discourses and language, and alienation.
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Armored Corps: The Spirit of Combativeness and Human Resilience – Graphic Narratives (2022-23)

Vincenzo Cohen·
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·September 10, 2024·24 min read
"Armored Corps: The spirit of combativeness and human resilience" is the theme of a graphic narrative project.
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Syrian Identity and Academic Self: Emerging Research or Ruthless Methodology?

Ataa Alsalloum·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·September 10, 2024·23 min read
Syrian Identity and Academic Self: Emerging Research or Ruthless Methodology seeks to illuminate a personal reflection that sparked a unique line of inquiry, ultimately leading to an innovative exploration within my research project.
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A Hard Look at Home: On the Paradoxes of Place

Jesse Curran·
All ContentAutoethnographic EssaysVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·August 21, 2024·9 min read
I channel Kincaid’s ironic and critical tone, while atoning for my failures to recognize dominant racist and classist discourses.
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