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Redemption By Fire: The Remains of a Same-Sex Love

Anthony Domenick·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 4 (2024)
·February 5, 2025·18 min read
This autoethnography about same-sex love poses spiritual debate on the processes of grieving and interment.
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Recipes of Life: How Kitchens Preserve Intergenerational Narratives

Tracy Luciani·
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·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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Buried Under Identities. How to Free My Sense of Self?

Kara Thorndike·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 3 (2024)
·July 5, 2024·27 min read
This article is a prequel to ongoing research into DIY Healing Within Ancestral Lands. A project born of growing up in a family system that was not kind, welcoming or loving.
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When Whistles Melt into Beeps: Four Poems for AutoEthnographer

Jhilam Chattaraj·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 4, Issue 2 (2024)
·May 16, 2024·6 min read
When Whistles Melt into Beeps: Four Poems for AutoEthnographer Author’s Memo I approach poetry as a vessel to preserve the...
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Shifting Gently from a Well-lived Life: A Beautiful Living and Passing

Tania Hume·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 4, Issue 1 (2024)
·January 29, 2024·17 min read
It recounts vignettes of my’s dad’s life, his final week, the deep bond with family and friends and the ease with which he let go of life.
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David Jenkins·
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·December 8, 2023·6 min read
This piece situates me in a set of sour in-laws relationships that also involved the legal system and it is in the form of autoethnography.
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Saying Goodbye: A Father’s Last Minute Parting Gift to His Son

Michelle Shreeve·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary FictionVolume 3, Issue 4 (2023)
·December 5, 2023·14 min read
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.
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Camping and Building Powerful Connections at Bull Trout Lake

Heidi Naylor·
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·October 1, 2023·15 min read
is an essay about the way technology can intrude and obscure what may be our most important human experiences
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Really, There Are No Helpers in The Foster System

Meg Hagseth·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 3, Issue 3 (2023)
·July 22, 2023·5 min read
This is a piece I wrote in desperation after being confronted with the failures of the foster system in the United States today.
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Processing Parental Grief: The Joy of the Surprise Letter

Michelle Shreeve·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary FictionVolume 3, Issue 2 (2023)
·June 16, 2023·11 min read
In this 2nd of my Processing Parental Grief series, Calliandra receives a letter from her mother weeks after her death.
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Narrating Estrangement: Is the Familial Bond Inevitably Strong Life-long?

Guillermo Rebollo Gil·
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·June 15, 2023·5 min read
Narrating Estrangement is written by those who have decided to distance themselves from, or have been driven out by, their families.
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Genuine Confessions from the Fearless Sommelier: Wine In The Blood

Annie B. Shapero·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 3, Issue 2 (2023)
·June 14, 2023·5 min read
"My parents drank wine with dinner every night.  There’s nothing remarkable about that, but to a kid growing up in Mid-Missouri it was weird."
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