Legislating inequity and exacerbating trauma An autoethnographic account of a traumatized teacher

• In Event: Autoethnographies of Resistance: Reimagining Curriculum

Abstract

Trauma, specifically PTSD associated with sexual violence, provides the foundation for the critical reflection of how I have navigated the classroom while being targeted by laws aimed at policing my practice. To do so, I explore the personal, which is ultimately performative and political, and the practical, which is also theoretically informed, via an autoethnographic account of how I, as a university professor at a time when higher education classrooms are under attack, have navigated higher education campuses and classrooms while dealing with my own PTSD.

Author

• Ashlee Anderson, University of Tennessee