Open AccessLife is like a box of Derwents - An Autoethnography Colouring in the Life of Child Sexual Abuse
Author(s) -
Karen D. Barley
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2020.4155
Subject(s) - autoethnography , subject (documents) , psychology , sexual abuse , psychoanalysis , sociology , aesthetics , gender studies , poison control , art , suicide prevention , medicine , environmental health , library science , computer science
This autoethnographic study contains vignettes from my life of unrelated but interconnected experiences of sexual abuse which profoundly impacted my life through moments of epiphanous transformation. I am using my voice as the researcher and researched to write authentically and evocatively as a way of truth telling about a difficult subject. This autoethnography invites you to walk in the shoes of myself as the storyteller and for that reason the vignettes are deliberately provocative and expose aspects of my life that have previously been hidden. The vignettes weave together stories that have had a profound impact on me which eventually led me to a career in education. I contend that these experiences laid the foundations for what kind of educator I would become.