ABSTRACT
This chapter is a collection of fragments plucked from the tornado. It presents plenary addresses and other key original papers from the 2015 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. At which, over pints at a pub, the author asked several autoethnographers what they would do if their ex said, 'I don't want you to write about me'. The author offers his latest book for publisher's consideration. In that book the author covers that Intimate Studies is the non-fiction account of a formerly religious, feminist academic small-town mom who recruits a young lover to fill the gap she created by kicking out a partner with posttraumatic stress disorder. While the tale is compelling on its own, the author's ability to tell it draws on nine years of doctoral and post-doctoral research on domestic abuse, memory, and representation, to provide a smart, self-aware, somewhat neurotic third-person narrator who questions herself and her own story.
