Hands on My Hips: Politics of a Subversive Fish. (April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Teman, Eric D.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 22:Number 4(2016)
• Page Start: 274
• Page End: 279
• Publication Date: 2016-04
• Subjects: autoethnography -- bullying -- LGBT -- narrative -- queer -- suicide; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800415615601
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

These interpretive autoethnographic tales are about my life experiences, growing up in rural Ohio as a queer male. I relive several of the innumerable unfortunate encounters with bullies who have haunted me over the years, partly as a therapeutic means to cope with the lasting effects of those torturous years and partly to potentially reach and touch the lives of others similarly affected. I use performative texts as a powerful means of portraying and articulating my message and persuasively voicing the emotion experienced. I also reflect on the queer predicament and how it has shaped my life.