From Here to There: How to Use Auto/ethnography to Bridge Difference

In: International review of qualitative research: IRQR, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 312-326

Abstract

In this reflexive auto/ethnography, the author challenges the lessons she learned about difference growing up in a small community. Seeing Johnson's quare theory as an opportunity to reimagine problematic conditioning, she reflects on moments of clarity related to sexuality, race, class, and gender difference and theorizes the possibilities of quare auto/ethnography as an opportunity to critique and engage difference. She uses auto/ethnography to introduce the possibilities of bridging (backward) in an effort to make sense and make meaning from difficult, painful, and complicated experiences.