It is actually perfect that our autoethnography projects are finishing up around Thanksgiving. As I was thinking about what to write this blog post on, I began to think about Thanksgiving and time spent with family. Family is a large factor that contributes to shaping the identity of each individual. That is one of the …
Author Archives: Sophie Kestner
The Self in Writing
Self-writing is a strange concept. In my mind self-writing was always just that, writing about the self – and it still is. I had just never taken the time to analyze what writing about the self truly means. Self-writing is not only a way to communicate fact-based stories about an individual, but it is also …
My Aunt
One of my favorite pictures is of me and my aunt. I am about three years old in the picture – my hair still in mini-fro form. In the picture we are standing in my kitchen with our family room in the background. I’m wearing a yellow t-shirt and extremely fashionable hot pink shorts with …
Expectations of a Woman
It is interesting looking at the way in which gender expectations are constructed by society and the culture we live in. In the example of The Woman Warrior, we were able to see the experience of Kingston’s aunt through a number of different lenses; each lens represents a different plausible narrative for what truly happened to …
a-ha
“Take on Me” by a-ha holds more meaning than most songs in my life. On my sister’s thirteenth birthday a few years ago, my family spent the day at a national park. We brought food for a picnic, we hiked, played Kan Jam, and honestly just had a really nice time. We simply enjoyed each …
The Importance of Self
I feel as though so often in our search for Truth and understanding we kick the idea of self and personability to the curb. We label it illegitimate; it is as if subjectivity is the plague. Our brains are trained to automatically reject any personal anecdotes or experiences when in an academic setting. This is …
How to Survive Life – Tarot Card Free!
We all have to trust in things we cannot see simply due to the fact that we will never be able to see everything. I feel as though most people understand this whether or not it is explicitly stated – it is the only way to cope with living in a world that is full …
The Truth About Truth
One thing I struggled to understand at first was the idea of “subjective truth”. When it was first brought up in class, I immediately thought, “That does not make any sense; it is a contradiction.” However, the more we unpacked what subjective truth truly is, it opened my eyes to better understand autobiographics as a …
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