{"title":"Reproducing (in) the Apocalypse","authors":"Shelby Swafford","doi":"10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.559","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Research Article| October 01 2023 Reproducing (in) the Apocalypse Shelby Swafford Shelby Swafford Shelby Swafford is an assistant professor of practice in Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. email: swafford@siu.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar email: swafford@siu.edu Journal of Autoethnography (2023) 4 (4): 559–567. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.559 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Shelby Swafford; Reproducing (in) the Apocalypse. Journal of Autoethnography 1 October 2023; 4 (4): 559–567. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.559 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Autoethnography Search I’ve been thinking a lot lately about all the stories I’ve told myself about the reasons I had my abortion. This isn’t out of the ordinary for me. I often think and write about my abortion in my research on storytelling as reproductive justice activism—how storytelling “invites us to shift the lens—that is, to imagine the life of another person and to reexamine our own realities and reimagine our own possibilities.”1 I often read others’ stories of their reproductive experiences and advocacy for reproductive freedom.2 I find comfort in their stories, in how stories “help us understand how others think and make decisions,”3 in how stories help us understand how we think and make decisions ourselves. Maybe it’s because I’m in the final stages of writing my dissertation on these stories. Maybe it’s because I’ve been reflecting on my family’s stories of parenthood, the stories of the... You do not currently have access to this content.","PeriodicalId":484440,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autoethnography","volume":"266 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of autoethnography","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.559","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Research Article| October 01 2023 Reproducing (in) the Apocalypse Shelby Swafford Shelby Swafford Shelby Swafford is an assistant professor of practice in Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. email: swafford@siu.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar email: swafford@siu.edu Journal of Autoethnography (2023) 4 (4): 559–567. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.559 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Shelby Swafford; Reproducing (in) the Apocalypse. Journal of Autoethnography 1 October 2023; 4 (4): 559–567. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2023.4.4.559 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Autoethnography Search I’ve been thinking a lot lately about all the stories I’ve told myself about the reasons I had my abortion. This isn’t out of the ordinary for me. I often think and write about my abortion in my research on storytelling as reproductive justice activism—how storytelling “invites us to shift the lens—that is, to imagine the life of another person and to reexamine our own realities and reimagine our own possibilities.”1 I often read others’ stories of their reproductive experiences and advocacy for reproductive freedom.2 I find comfort in their stories, in how stories “help us understand how others think and make decisions,”3 in how stories help us understand how we think and make decisions ourselves. Maybe it’s because I’m in the final stages of writing my dissertation on these stories. Maybe it’s because I’ve been reflecting on my family’s stories of parenthood, the stories of the... You do not currently have access to this content.