Sustain and further build our autoethnographic community
Explore the following themes:
Speaking through a broken heart: How does autoethnography and performance support us in our efforts to feel the weight of the world and move forward anyway? How can we both acknowledge “broken heartedness” and express an impulse towards what comes next?
Advocacy and Action : The autoethnographic project is/as an action; what is the nature of that action now, in these times of closing, and constriction, and animpulse to self-protection, what is the fuel that autoethnography provides to call in, call out, and call up?
Worldmaking / World(re)making: What worlds become possible with seeing ourselves as reflections of the world, now? What stories have we told about this world and/or ourselves that need rewriting? This theme welcomes stories that imagine us into other futures and draws from our rolodex of experience seeds of worldmaking practices.
Discover, through conversation, where and how the work continues. How are imagination and inspiration helping us to work in new ways and new contexts to meet the needs of our communities and the times through which we are living?
