Communicating Trust in Collaborative Autoethnography: Red de Confianza

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 8:00 am Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Narratives for Transformation: Racial Justice and Liberation Through Autoethnography (Table 5)

Abstract

In this paper, we describe and reflect on creating and communicating the Red de Confianza of four authors of a collaborative autoethnography. The Red de Confianza is theorized from our reflections in and on action throughout a Latin*-queer worldmaking research project. With this theory, we aim to challenge established research language norms in engineering education and form deeper connections among ourselves as colleagues. We position the Red de Confianza as a multifaceted relational network produced when researchers connect with and as participants to overcome hegemonic monolinguistic English in research, find solidarity within and among different identities, and elevate our voices as queer Latin* individuals.

Authors

• Héctor E Rodríguez-Simmonds, Boston College

• Leonardo Pollentini Marcos, Purdue University

• Cristian Vargas-Ordóñez, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

• Kevin J. Kaufman-Ortiz, Purdue University