... story and experience as a member of the trans community. This piece approaches unsilencing in two ways—as a way to ethically work with populations where a researcher has an outsider identity and to subvert traditional research methodologies. Unsilencing is explored through my narrative analysis...

... Emotion Politics Narrative Race Leadership Policy Research Critical theory Oliver’s The Colonization of Psychic Space ( 2004 ) states that a psychoanalytic social theory of oppression involves “making politics ethical—requires accounting for the unconscious” (p. xxii). Accounting...

...Michael L. Zirulnik; Mark P. Orbe Utilizing phenomenological creative nonfiction, this study explores the communicative experiences of an African American female military pilot on the flight deck and within the civil, commercial aviation industry. Presented in narrative form, the findings explore...

... experiences and desires we narrate and perform in what is commonly termed “erotica.” Conjoining the two, critical erotic/a provides a narrative platform for theorizing and performing lived and envisioned sexual experience and desire. Erotica Erotic knowledge Embodiment Narrative Sexuality © 2020...

..., and increasing costs of social care—was a degree of apathy. Arts-based research Critical pedagogy Narrative Performance ethnography Songs The politics of evidence-based research, 2 the commodification of knowledge, 3 and the marketization of science make commissioned research an increasingly...

... by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Request 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 . 2018 Metamorphosis Narrative Aging Popular...

...Craig Gingrich-Philbrook In this brief essay, the author responds to a performative panel of essays by students of Devika Chawla. He situates his reading of the event betwixt and between typical modes of performance studies research, demonstrating how the panelists reveal narrative's power...

...Tim McKenna-Buchanan These narratives are an exploration into the complexity of heteronormativity in the American workplace. They contribute to the field of critical qualitative research by complexifying and storying the experiences of individuals who identify as gay or lesbian in the workplace...

... Gathering Place, we employ black feminist thought (BFT) as critical social theory and embrace a more expansive understanding of BFT as critical methodology to analyze the experiences black women share through narrative. Our theoretical and methodological approach offers a pathway for education and research...

... of what is written about the increasing number of women who are childless by choice focuses on reasons such as finances, freedom, and career. With this in mind, I offer my story and present an alternative narrative of grief impacting the choice to remain childless. Small body in a coffin; Golden curls...

... the philosophical similarities between writing biographyand co-authoring an enduring friendship. Both are aesthetic achievements “consummated” and made “whole” only through the contributions of the other. Presenting narratives written in an idiosyncratic, subjective voice and extended by that of my friend, I hope...

... voice. You can hear the magic in her writing. Because everything she writes shows Buddy to have been right all along. Robin M. Boylorn is a writer ! Autoethnography Community Ethnography Narrative Resilience Dusty roads. Poverty. Sweet tea. Dark secrets. Violence. Sweaty brows. Jesus...

...Robert L. Ballard This essay traces the qualitative investigation into narrative burden as it reveals itself in interpersonal and intercultural interactions involving transnational, transracial adoptees. Narrative burden is the context and crucible wherein adoptees struggle with issues of racism...

... sexual orientation, considering suicide, and persevering to lead a successful adult life. His speech was given in a city council meeting in Texas, but his message reached a much wider audience. Drawing on the public modalities framework, this study employs narrative and discourse analysis to examine his...

... that can be further understood through qualitative narratives that speak to intersectional identities, power, oppression, and resistance. Drawing from the analysis of five focus group discussions, we highlight three subcategories that surfaced in relation to stereotypes including: (a) Omnipresence...

...Erin K. Willer The master narrative about social aggression is that it is devastating for girls. Absent from the narrative, however, are girls' voices and a consideration of the positive benefits that targets might incur. Girls' stories of social aggression can be hard to communicate...

... happiness as inextricably tied to narrative and moral judgments about the goodness of a whole life. The narratives we make in autoethnography ought to invite and encourage a responsiveness to the other and a responsibility for the other. © 2012 Left Coast Press, Inc. All rights reserved. 2012...