Get Free Poet! A Critical Autoethnography of Doctoral Student Socialization as a Radical Artist

• In Event: Leading for Change: Student Leadership, Advocacy, and Resistance in Higher Education

Abstract

This study is a critical autoethnography of privileges and oppressions a youth poet and radical teaching artist from the U.S. South faces being socialized into an urban education doctorate program understood through queer and intersectionality conceptualization. Literature of artistic and minoritized graduate student narratives support perceptions of the researcher's identities shaped within this socio-cultural socialization and expectations of higher education. This work explores the research-based understanding of how the researcher's privileges and experiences of oppression within academia shape how they constantly negotiate identities of race, gender, class, and sexuality and how they intersect and become embodied experiences.

Author

• Cassidy L. Martin, University of Southern California