Open AccessThe Skits, Sketches, and Stories of MotherScholars
Author(s) -
Lauren Burrow,
Chrissy Cross,
Heather K. Olson Beal,
Stuart Smith
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2020.4520
Subject(s) - friendship , interpretation (philosophy) , citizen journalism , the arts , space (punctuation) , visual arts , psychology , autoethnography , sociology , aesthetics , world wide web , art , computer science , social psychology , social science , programming language , operating system
“MotherScholars” are those who creatively weave their maternal identities into their scholarly spaces. With this article we invite readers along a collaborative friendship study of our own participatory arts-based journey to understand, reclaim, and identify personal and professional benefits only realized once we acknowledged and embraced the blended reality of Mother Scholarhood. Our work is presented as a curation of individual skits, sketches, and short stories that were created during a collective 8-week time span in a shared virtual space. We open our story to interpretation and interaction through the lenses of our readers.