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Fox Harper

@foxharper.bsky.social

Just got out of a meeting where I had to engage a fascinating question: "does autoethnography require IRB approval?"

A surprisingly meaty dilemma when you think about it!

November 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM

androgynous vampire enthusiast

@riotlinguist.bsky.social

cw: nonce apologia
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as expected, lol. "science is being CENSORED by woke/politically correct ideologues!!!!" was a line of rhetoric pioneered by abuse apologists, and always circles back to that

article published on "the journal of controversial ideas" titled; The Pedophile as a Human Being: An Autoethnography for the Recognition of a Marginalized Sexual Orientation
by Brecht Vaerwaeter (pseudonym)
Controversial Ideas 2022, 2(1), 3; doi: 10.35995/jci02010003
Received: 28 May 2021 / Accepted: 4 Apr 2022 / Published: 29 Apr 2022
PDF Full-text (177kb) | XML Full-text

Abstract
By the general public and in the media, pedophilia as a sexual orientation is systematically confused with sexual abuse of minors. Neurological research supports the idea that pedophilia is an innate sexual orientation, and that is how pedophiles, in the sense of ‘minor-attracted... [read more]

October 30, 2025 at 12:31 AM

danilynrutherford.bsky.social

@danilynrutherford.bsky.social

Beautiful Mystery in Stockholm! Excited to be in conversation with the wonderful writer Fanny Ambjörnsson on autoethnography and care. Thanks to the Department of Social Anthropology for hosting us! @dukepress.bsky.social

www.su.se/department-o...

Autoethnographies of Care: A Conversation with Fanny Ambjörnsson och Danilyn Rutherford - Department of Social Anthropology

Autoethnographies of Care: A Conversation with Fanny Ambjörnsson och Danilyn Rutherford

www.su.se

October 7, 2025 at 3:48 AM

Michelle Chen

@michellechn.bsky.social

Today we've got BLACK OR RIGHT which explores ideas of Blackness in white institutional spaces. It's theory; it's rhetoric studies; it's autoethnography. It's got it all. Including some truly haunting personal accounts of what it practically means to be a Black man on campus.

October 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM

Swamp Witch 🍂🍁

@beneathhergaze.bsky.social

Going through the 500+ tabs on my old phone to see which ones are still relevant.

I have found searches for the following:
- "how to make a reliquary for teeth"
- "autoethnography of trauma"
- "learn how to dj"
- "jam karet"
- "sharpening wheel foot powered"
- Amazon listing, a ram's horn headpiece

October 3, 2025 at 2:56 AM

ProdigalHoosier

@prodigalhoosier.medsky.social

This might only interest a handful of people I know, but this compendium of hardcore/punk academic writing is phenomenal.

Cover of the book hard-core research: punk practice politics
Edited by Konstantine Butz and Robert A. Winkler.

The image on the cover is a black-and-white image of the lead singer of Turnstile falling into a mosh pit.

Content and Contributors
To guide your choice of where to enter Hardcore Research, in the following, and in accordance with our table of contents, we alphabetically list our contributors and briefly introduce the titles and topics of their respective articles:

Gerfried Ambrosch uses his article "Changing Perspectives: From Participation to Observation (Autoethnography of a Punk Researcher)" to consider the change in perspective that accompanies a switch from participating as an active member of the hardcore/punk scene to observing it as researcher. He undergirds his reflections with references to his own experiences as a touring hardcore musician.

Ellen Bernhard, in "Milo Goes to College, Ellen Goes to Grad School: The Series of Events that Turned an Afterschool Hobby into a Hardcore Pursuit of Punk Rock" takes us on her journey from high school to grad school and the academic interest she develops in the hardcore/punk scenes and music that

shaped her youth. She writes from the perspective of a generation that grew up with (and learned about hardcore/punk from the internet, and considers
digital communication.
the relevance of the punk rock ethos for her teaching activities in the field of In "A Network of Hardcore Researchers: Punk Studies, Punk Scholarship, Punk Pedagogy," Russ Bestley, Mike Dines, and Francis Stewart provide an overview of punk scholarship with a particular focus on the Punk Scholars Network (PSN) and the history of changing methodological approaches towards the subject of hardcore/punk. The many works they reference in their bibliography provide an excellent starting point for further reading into the academic study of punk and hardcore.
Marcus Clayton, in "Dancing on the Corpses' Ashes': On Post-Hardcore Performance and Erased Nonwhite Bodies," engages the punk ethos to highlight the underestimated survival of nonwhite, Afrolatina, and queer bodies through the power of performance. He presents a close analysis of hard-core/punk videos with a particular focus on the work of El Paso's late 1990s post-hardcore band At The Drive-In.
Brian Cogan, who published the comprehensive Encyclopedia of Punk Music and Culture, and Kevin Dunn, author of Global Punk: Resistance and Rebellion in Everyday Life, seized the occasion of our anthology to converse about their careers writing about hardcore/punk. Representing very different academic trajectories, in their contribution "Hardcore, Punk, and Academia" they discuss their involvement within punk scenes, how their personal experiences and interests have led them to the similar task of writing punk scholarship, and what it means to be a "hardcore academic" from their individual perspec-tives.
Sean Cullen, in "Survival of the Streets': Krishna Consciousness and Religion in Hardcore Punk at the End of the Cold War," discusses conceptions of the hardcore subgenre of Straight Edge, as well as the notions of the sacred and the secular within hardcore…

tures. In doing so, he includes considerations of the chances and challenges of contemporary internet phenomena and online education.
Shayna Maskell looks at the construction of race within hardcore/punk by reconsidering the narratives associated with the seminal all-black hardcore band Bad Brains. In "There is no hope for the USA: Bad Brains and The Sounds of Race in DC Hardcore," she analyzes the band's history and their performances of multiple racial identities in view of the complicated aesthetics of racialized sound, the reinterpretation of rock 'n' roll, the lyrical parallels to folk music, and the inclusion of reggae.
With our contribution "Ms. Bob Davis and Hardcore California: A Conversation About a Forty-Year-Old Document of Hardcore Research" we come full circle and include an exclusive interview with one of the editors of Hardcore California: A History of Punk and New Wave. In addition to recalling the genealogy of her and Belsito's 1983 book, Ms. Bob Davis touches on early punk and art scenes around the famous DIY venue Valencia Tool & Die in San Francisco and her unique career as a musician, academic, and transgender activist.
In their article "Writing from Hardcore: Interwoven Lines of Becoming," Alain Müller and Marion Schulze explore heuristic potentialities to capture hardcore as a constructive force by referring to the conceptual apparatus of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. In doing so, they reflect on the intimate relationship between hardcore and their own research as academics.
Alan Parkes' comprehensive account "White Punks in the Chocolate City:
Hardcore and Local History in Washington, DC" provides a detailed insight into youth cultures in late twentieth-century DC by showing that the history of hardcore stands not only to expose the significance of the subculture, but also the histories and deep-seated political and social realities which influenced its members.
David Pearson offers a rare musicological approach to hardcore in his artic…

October 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM

lastpositivist.bsky.social

@lastpositivist.bsky.social

I feel relatively unusual in being pretty sympathetic to the critiques of analytic philosophy (it's an autoethnography of the intuitions of people whose only distinguishing mark is their ancestors happened to develop machine guns first) without that making me sympathetic to other traditions at all.

September 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM

Andrew G. Benson

@a-g-benson.bsky.social

Economists who hold the views in that comment should publish empirical work testing their claims. What's stopping them from producing evidence comparable to Wu (2018) on sexism on EJMR? Thanks to the credibility revolution, we have much better tools for settling these disputes than autoethnography.

September 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM

Sally-Anne Wherry

@sawherry.bsky.social

Definitely. Our lives inform our work. How can we embrace the inevitable instead of denying it? Does me, using my autoethnography highlights how my experiences and feelings informed and shaped my work

Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · Jan 12

Parallels here with psychology where researcher and practitioner backgrounds may often profoundly influence work (in many ways) but in many areas of the discipline it's actively discouraged from mentioning or drawing upon. It limits interpretations and applications while adding a human cost.

Dr Kate Womersley @katewomersley.com · Jan 12

In 2010s Cambridge it was déclassé to talk about authors’ biographies as if they had any relevance to their work (this may continue). The connection is indirect & complex, but we ignore it at huge cost: in Alice Munro’s case, naivety about her partner’s child abuse www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

January 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM

Rebecca J. Hogue

@rebeccahogue.com

Autoethnography Versus Memoir

The first difference for me is in the audience. Autoethnography is written for academics. Memoir is generally written for a wider audience - the general public or a specific subset of the general public. The real difference is in the purpose. Autoethnography at its…

Autoethnography Versus Memoir

The first difference for me is in the audience. Autoethnography is written for academics. Memoir is generally written for a wider audience - the general public or a specific subset of the general public. The real difference is in the purpose. Autoethnography at its heart is about the analysis of the experience. Memoir is about sharing the experience itself.

rebeccahogue.com

March 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM

Ryan Randall

@ryanpatrickrandall.com

Inquiline is an impressive scholar.

Autoethnography is a valid method.

The fact that you're choosing to bring your campaign against her from Mastodon to this network shows that you need, at minimum, to stop stalking her online.

Let it go, donkey man.

February 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM

Wendy Mages

@wendymages.bsky.social

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Photo credit: Pamela Kuhn
#storyteller #stories #poetry #poems #fiction #nonfiction #cnf #autoethnography

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January 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM

Yu Kanazawa

@knzw783.bsky.social

Han, S., Su, C., & Qi, Y. (2025). From challenges to assets: Collaborative autoethnography on the transcultural journeys as teacher educators. Journal of International Students, 15(4), 171-188. doi.org/10.32674/9vj...

From challenges to assets: Collaborative autoethnography on the transcultural journeys as teacher educators | Journal of International Students

doi.org

March 16, 2025 at 9:47 AM

Jess Schomberg

@schomj.bsky.social

week 3: autoethnographic data and analysis

(or, how autoethnography is different from a memoir)

Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · Jun 10

autoethnographies class, week 2: reading autoethnographies

this slide is the kind of explicit instruction I really need, much appreciate

A few tips I have found helpful in my own experience reading autoethnographies -
1.Try to feel the language, rather than reading for literal meaning only
2.Pay attention to your emotions
3.Pay attention to your body
4.Resist the urge to ask the kinds of questions you would of traditional social science

June 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM

circumamce

@circumstamce.bsky.social

Delayed Stress Syndrome and Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict; an autoethnographic survey of the impact of heroism and the foreign in 1980s film on 2000s scifi television, the development of trauma theory of trauma, and the overlap of autoethnography, trauma, & media in Gen X voting patterns

November 22, 2024 at 11:02 PM

ZP Rosen

@zaqdelinguist.bsky.social

Hey #academicsky and #sociology and #anthropology. I’m designing a course for the spring where the final project is going to be an autoethnographic piece. Does anyone have any good textbook recommendations for autoethnography writing?

November 23, 2024 at 4:55 PM

Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power

@identitiesjournal.bsky.social

'Between commodification and #racial capital: an autoethnography exploring #whiteness in higher education in #Japan'

New from #Identities, by Kako Koshino

doi.org/10.1080/1070...

@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

January 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM

Dr. Ralph Mercer

@rem59.bsky.social

@netjmc.bsky.social One AI’s Hallucination is another Human's Writing Prompt: Notes from an Autoethnography Journey barnabyrivercottage.substack.com/p/one-ais-ha...

One AI’s Hallucination is another Human's Writing Prompt: Notes from an Autoethnography Journey

To catch an AI in a hallucination, the human must know the answer or know where to find the answer.

barnabyrivercottage.substack.com

January 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM

Sarah J. Martin

@eatingpolitics.bsky.social

In St. John's? Free autoethnography course this fall at Memorial University!!
Memorial PhD Candidate seeks study participants with long-term un/underemployment experience & university degree(s). A no-fee 10-week Autoethnography Writing Workshop starts Oct. 10.
visit tinyurl.com/2mtnh5rd

Autoethnography Writing Workshop. Do you have 2 or more years of lived experience with un/under employment? Are you 40+ years old, a picture of a mortar board and a picture of a Avalon Peninsula map around St. John's.

September 19, 2023 at 4:39 PM

V is for תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ

@alana-m-vincent.net

I see a lot of PhD students who want to use autoethnography as their main method bc they have a strong connection to the topic, which is great, but it takes work to get the balance of the writing right so the reflective portions are helping to advance the argument, rather than replacing the argument

August 15, 2024 at 9:24 PM

malakyonis.bsky.social

@malakyonis.bsky.social

I had the pleasure of presenting for the first time at the International Autobiography Association - Chapter of the Americas 2025 in Cape May, NJ.

I presented a Palestinian Autoethnography comparing my experiences to the experiences of an unnamed narrator in Sayed Kashua’s Let It Be Morning.