“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.”
The Twerking Academic: “Four Women,” a Multimedia Autoethnography
New from The Twerking Academic, “I know what to call myself: a complicated woman. But what do they call me?“
Autoethnographic Literary Fiction: Three Bangladeshi Women – Part 1, Meena
“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.”
The Twerking Academic: “Strong Black Woman”, a Multimedia Autoethnography
“At what age does a Black woman learn that it is her job to be strong?”
Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: Cooking with Cannabis
“When I return to Sam’s place with the cheesecloth, I smell our “soup” pot. Shit. I envision the blotter headline: ECU Professor busted for marijuana. What a way to make my graduate mentors proud and to show success at this professor business.”