(Art)icu(late) multiself narratives: An autoethnography of (be)coming

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Abstract

After over 13 years away from my roots, I finally found the courage to narrate a long-avoided childhood memory. As a writer/educator/researcher, I examine this experience through experimental critical autoethnographic narratives of being and doing gender as a non- reductive and non-reducible self. By entangling self, art, and narrative as an ontoepistemological approach, I investigate how critical autoethnography, through my multiqueerself, queer narrative, and queer art, can address the relationship between these elements. This methodology aims to blur the boundaries between academically privileged and marginalized ways of knowing and being. Recognizing the intersectionality between reductions in gender and research practices, this paper calls for continuously disrupting categories by integrating self, narrative, and art as a unified way of being and knowing.

Author

• Arisandy Johnson, Arizona State University