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Interview with poet M. Soledad Caballero, Winner of the IAANI 2022 Outstanding Book Award

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·January 13, 2022·16 min read
"I’ve already resisted that scholarship is not creative and poetry is not part of my scholarly self. I think the idea of autoethnography allows for that cultural divide between the creative and academic to be really disrupted."
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Man of Song: Faith, An Autoethnographic Elegy for My Father

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·March 31, 2023·20 min read
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.
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Cancer and Caregiving during COVID: A Unique and Horrid Experience

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·June 2, 2023·30 min read
I strived to represent the experience of being a pediatric healthcare worker during COVID.
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An Autoethnography on Autoimmunity: The Truth About Life with Chronic Illness

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·January 25, 2024·26 min read
This work addresses the issue of young women being underserved as health care patients, specifically through the lens of medical gaslighting.
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