Robin M. Boylorn is Associate Professor of Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication at the University of Alabama. Her research centers identity and autoethnography, focusing primarily on the lived experience(s) of Black women in the U.S. South. She is the author of Sweetwater: Black Women and Narratives of Resilience and co-writer of The Crunk Feminist Collection. Her second monograph, Blackgirl Blue(s), is forthcoming with Routledge.Mark P. Orbe is Professor of Communication and Diversity at Western Michigan University where he also serves as a Faculty Fellow in the Office of Institutional Equity. His scholarly interests focus on the inextricable relationship between culture, power, and communication.

• Introduction, Critical Autoethnography as Method of Choice/Choosing Critical Autoethnography. Part I: Complexities of Identity Performance. Chapter One, Wounded: Diagnosis (for a) Black Woman. Chapter Two, Critical Autoethnography as Intersectional Praxis: A Performative Pedagogical Interplay on Bleeding Borders of Identity. Chapter Three, Performing Fortune Cookie: An Autoethnographic Performance on Diasporic Hybridity. Chapter Four, Negotiating More, (Mis)labeling the Body: A Tale of Intersectionality. Chapter Five, My Butch Body: An Autoethnography of Gender and (Dis)ease. Storied Summary. Part II: Relationships in Diverse Contexts. Chapter Six, Post-Coming Out Complications: Familial Experiences After the Disclosure of Queerness. Chapter Seven, Connecting with Water Spirits: An Autoethnography of Home and Higher Education. Chapter Eight, Negating the Inevitable: An Autoethnographic Analysis of First-Generation College Student Status. Chapter Nine, Deep South Mennonite, Transgender Amish: A Critical Autoethnography of White Cisheteronormativity. Chapter Ten, The Transitory Radical: Making Place with Cancer and Crafting Liveable Truths. Storied Summary. Part III: Pathways to Culturally Authentic Selves. Chapter Eleven, I-395. Chapter Twelve, Tikkun Olam From a Queer Jewess Perspective. Chapter Thirteen, A Story and A Stereotype: An Angry and Strong Autoethnography. Chapter Fourteen, Socioeconomic (Im)Mobility: Resisting Classifications within a "Post-Projects" Identity. Chapter Fifteen, Tongue Does Matter: Examining the Impact of English Neo-Imperialism Through Exophonic Autoethnography. Storied Summary.

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