"Collaborative Autoethnographic Writing as Communal Curative". Issue 4 (February 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Alhayek, Katty; Alexander, Bryant Keith; Foster, Elissa; Ojeda, Carmen Hernandez; Mackie-Stephenson, Ayshia; Moreira, Claudio; Pelias, Ronald J.; Poulos, Christopher; Sutton, Timothy; Twishime, Porntip Israsena
• Other Names: Holman Jones Stacy guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: International review of qualitative research. Volume 15:Issue 4(2022)
• Page Start: 544
• Page End: 570
• Publication Date: 2023-02
• Subjects: collaborative autoethnography -- privilege -- marginality -- precarity -- COVID pandemic -- forced isolation; Qualitative research -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; Social justice -- Periodicals; Qualitative research; Social justice; Social sciences -- Research; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 001.42
• DOI: 10.1177/19408447211068193
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1940-8447

Abstract

This collaborative autoethnography reflects on how each author experienced COVID-19 and associated precarity. We explore the ways in which this experience relates to our identities (both particular and plural), and our positionalities in terms of privilege and marginality. As a collective of diverse collaborators, we confront dialectical questions of self and society. Our contributions reveal our advantage/disadvantage, mobility/immobility, and the borders and boundedness before/during/after COVID-19. We show the power of curative writing in collaborative autoethnography and how the sharing of our experiences of vulnerability represents an invitation to human connection.