ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we discuss our autoethnographic narratives of becoming a mother and a father while working as academics. We reflect on the ethical potential of the autoethnographic method in helping to connect personal experiences to aspects of phenomena which were not previously imagined. By focusing on personal experiences as an epistemic resource, we outline strategies for using autoethnographic sensibility as a methodological framework. Through our autoethnographic accounts of mother/fatherhood and academic work, we show how this research strategy can yield important personal insights connected to ethicalising knowledge. We believe that the autoethnographic turn can provide energy in confronting the ideological normalisation of inequality.
