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Expressions of Care: How to Provide Grief Support

Lily Fessenden and Maegan Parker Brooks·
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·February 11, 2025·13 min read
Through our collaborative autoethnography, we learned that intentionally spending time with grief is well worth the effort.
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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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You’re Still Here: Art and Grief in Autoethnographic Textiles

Rebecca Godderis·
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·July 7, 2024·9 min read
You’re Still Here: Art and Grief in Autoethnographic Textiles Artist’s Memo You’re Still Here: Art and Grief in Autoethnographic Textiles...
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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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Autoethnographic Nonfiction: Grieving, or How to Make the Best Spinach Lasagna

Zsofia Czako, Walter Burgess and Marietta Morry·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary NonfictionVolume 3, Issue 1 (2023)
·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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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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Bodily Autonomy: A Fetus for a Fetus

Catherine Berresheim·
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·August 10, 2022·14 min read
LEARN MORE “Bodily Autonomy: A Fetus for a Fetus” explores the cultural issues of what it means to be a...
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Processing Parental Grief: The Unexpected Joy of a Found Sweater

Michelle Shreeve·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary FictionVolume 2, Issue 2 (2022)
·June 20, 2022·6 min read
I write of parental grief & my mother's sweater as a comfort to me, exploring cultures of grief where pain meets love and love meets pain.
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Autoethnographic Literary Nonfiction: I Just Want to Go Home – Moving, Loss and Unacknowledged Grief

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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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“My Voice”: Autoethnographic Poems for a New Beginning

Milton Carp·
All ContentAutoethnographic PoetryVolume 1, Issue 1 (2021)
·September 21, 2021·13 min read
"My poems are not entirely mine. They belong to the people and events of my passage through life. For once the dam is breached its contents flow unabridged. - Milton Carp, poet at 91"
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