Today, we’ll continue to look at Inayatulla’s autoethnography “Literate Vixens and Shameless Hijabis” in an effort to build our collaborative definition of autoethnography. I want to start with George’s question from Tuesday about race, specifically considering what is Inayatulla doing with the image of the ape that reoccurs throughout this piece. Alongside Inayatulla’s essay, please have Jackson & Grutsch McKinney’s “Critical Introduction” pulled up on your device and opened to page 11.

After we do some close reading as a large group, you will pick a paragraph (either on page 50-51 or 55) that we quickly looked at together and write in response to the following questions:

• How is the passage you chose about the author’s experience with writing?
• What other published texts is this author in conversation with?
• How does this author resist stereotypes or push back against the status quo?

Hold on to this writing because we’ll come back to it next week.

HOMEWORK

READ Rainey’s autoethnography “Her Own Voice: Coming Out in Academia with Bipolar Disorder.”