... on the intersection of race, gender, and spirituality. It uses Black women’s autobiography, critical praxis autoethnography, counter-storytelling, and Black girl cartography as methodological tools. Drawing from cultural studies, feminist theories, African American history, women’s history, and childhood studies...

... of the University of California 2021 Creative nonfiction Gender Race Aviation Narrative This is a story of quiet, subversive oppression—the kind that is difficult to see from land but is exceptionally powerful. It is also the story of one woman triumphing—in her own way—to do what she loves...

... a species difference. Human–animal relationships Creative nonfiction Mourning Gender Narrative medicine © 2021 by The Regents of the University of California 2021 On June 20th, the summer solstice and the longest day of the year, my cat died. During the last month of his short life, when...

... experiences as Floridian-Southerners: intra-regional tensions around religion, gender performances, and reproductive politics. Through layering our experiences among vignettes from Floribama Shore , we make visible the relationship between the consumption of popular media, the representations of Floridian...

... my past and lived experiences to interrogate complex intersections of disability, gender, and queerness. This approach contributes to emergent literature examining intersections of queer and disabled identities while using an intersectional lens to examine how privileged identities intersect...

... within such an oppressive system. The story details the author's decision to work in the wilderness as a means of seeking spiritual transformation, but, instead, she finds herself confronting the same intersections of class and gender that she had been raised with in her hometown. When I was 24, I went...

... permission to photocopy or reproduce article content at the University of California Press's Reprints and Permissions web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2017 Autoethnography Gender Personal narrative Race Creative nonfiction I often wonder: Who's really here...

... and the stories it tells. The smile. I ask: How does a smile migrate? What does habitat and geography have to do with this mundane expression brought onto the body as an “ordinary affect?” How does the gendered female body learn to (un)smile across complex histories, colonial legacies, and fractured geographies...

... and intercultural dimensions. More specifically, we embrace a layered account whereas our individual and collective points of self-reflexivity inform, and are informed by, cultural contracts theory. Our goal here is not to document racialized and gendered insights for the purposes of generalization; rather, we...

.../journals.php?p=reprints 2015 Autoethnography Health communication Personal narrative Family communication Gender Every time I sat down to work on class projects, however, I found myself returning to thoughts of what I was calling the ‘ADHD Narratives.’ I could not focus on anything else...

..., normal identity, heterosexuality needs other sexualities to create the margin to its center. Does that make sense?” 3 “Yes. I remember talking about this before. You were going to use it for the gender chapter of your dissertation, but then didn't.” When I was three my mother developed...