"This autoethnographic poetry is born of my personal experience, witness, as well as currently chronicled and ancestral lore."
"Award-winning artist, Suzanne Hughes, talks about autoethnography and painting. Suzanne is responsible for the cover art for our special issue based on climate change."
"A tree once taught me that those moments of ruin are only a pause, a passage really, on the way to something else."
Ulla-Maija Matikainen·
All ContentAutoethnographic Literary FictionAutoethnographic PoetryAutoethnographic WritingVolume 2, Issue 1 (2022)
··12 min read"A woman alone doesn’t belong to any male power or protection sphere. She can be kidnapped into fears and dreams."
"My oil on canvas series, "Journey of Self Love," depicts a variation of obstacles I've personally had to endure throughout my life as a woman."
"This essay on bodily autonomy specifically discusses abortion access and rights in the United States and Canada, and the politics that often follow."
Zona. I have always thought that names of diseases sound so beautiful. This is the story of a disease that lives with me.
In Part One, I situated my work within the context of the work of writers. Now, I’m situating my work within the context of women writers.
This piece explores the ways in which identity and esteem are interwoven into the topic of Black hair.
"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."
I pay homage to Nina Simone’s already iconic and thorough exploration of stereotypes by setting the project to the song “Four Women.”
"In this autoethnodrama, a woman terminates a pregnancy without telling her husband."