Perhaps my queerness/genderqueerness informed my willingness to read and review Dr. Elizabeth Ettore’s Autoethnography as Feminist Method: Sensitising the Feminist “I.” Being gender curious from an early age—caught wearing women’s clothing and makeup, loving to dance expressively in front of the 1980s box television—I felt pain when I did not fit gendered and later sexualized expectations. Feminism, first came to me through my sensitization to my gender, later through my embodiment, and even later in poetry: feminist authors like Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Anne Sexton transformed what I had been taught about the world into rich lyric, powerful metaphor, and reconfigured fairy tale. I learned through them that writing could transform the world. Later feminist psychologists like Sandra Bem and Helen Haste strongly influenced the way I saw the world and the role feminist research had within it. As a novice autoethnographer, I would be nowhere without my discovery...

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