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Vita et Amissio: A Collection of Works on Life & Loss

Alexandra Moffatt·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 3, Issue 2 (2023)
·April 29, 2023·7 min read
Through all of the things that separate us, there is one universal experience that transcends all barriers: love.
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The Ultimate Wave: Prose Poetry of the Pandemic and Parents

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·March 27, 2023·6 min read
The Ultimate Wave: Prose Poetry of the Pandemic and Parents Author’s Memo “The Wave” examines the problem of pleasure and...
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Autoethnographic Nonfiction: Grieving, or How to Make the Best Spinach Lasagna

Zsofia Czako, Walter Burgess and Marietta Morry·
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·March 17, 2023·14 min read
In the autoethnographic "Spinach Lasagna", the narrator joins a family of southern Italians and learns that grieving is cultural.
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“Ethology”: An Ethnographic Account of a Road Trip in East Africa

Dan Lawrence·
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·February 18, 2023·46 min read
Ethology is a highly fictionalized ethnographic account of my travels around Tanzania, East Africa during my teens.
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Autoethnographic Poetry on Bodily Autonomy: Watch the Womb

Regina Garcia·
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·November 10, 2022·8 min read
"This autoethnographic poetry is born of my personal experience, witness, as well as currently chronicled and ancestral lore."
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Emotional Research: Performing Autoethnography at My Late Father’s Village

Dilek Isler Hayirli·
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·November 6, 2022·13 min read
"I had not been aware that this emotional research was also performing autoethnography, collecting memories from the field"
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The Challenges of Being a Woman in Bangladesh: Asha’s Story

Aliya Khan·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary FictionVolume 2, Issue 4 (2022)
·November 4, 2022·47 min read
"I wrote Asha’s story to give voice to all the women in rural Bangladesh who cannot speak out against their abusers or society."
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Surviving Rape and Abuse in an International Marriage

Detroit Richards·
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·October 25, 2022·12 min read
"I write at length about my experiences surviving rape and abuse as a Western woman in Japan. I was lucky to get out alive."
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Autoethnographic Essay: The Unbearable Triteness of Being (Middle Class)

Chris Fleming·
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·October 18, 2022·23 min read
"This autoethnographic essay explores in a (hopefully) creative way ideas about social class in relation to my own negotiations of identity and upbringing in eastern Sydney, Australia."
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The Challenges of Being a Woman in Bangladesh: Rehnuma’s Story

Aliya Khan·
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·April 25, 2022·42 min read
"Ami Tau Ami (I Am Who I Am), is a story about a mother letting go of her own dreams but passing it to her daughter, as my mother did for me."
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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: I Just Want to Go Home – Moving, Loss and Unacknowledged Grief

Michelle Reale·
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·March 23, 2022·18 min read
"Moving away from a beloved home at a tender age was traumatizing, in part, because that home was the only place in which I felt safe."
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The Challenges of Being a Woman in Bangladesh: Meena’s Story

Aliya Khan·
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·February 16, 2022·22 min read
"My stories are meant to give women from Bangladesh a chance to show their strength and resilience. It is a way for me to try to connect with the rest of the world despite the differences in language and culture."
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