ABSTRACT
Intersectional autoethnography provides space to unpack the complex layers of power systems that chaperone experience. In this chapter, the author defines how intersectionality and autoethnography together affect what stories we choose to tell, how we understand our own bodies and other bodies within stories, and how we connect our bodies and stories to larger political structures and systems of power. The author posits than an autoethnographer can establish a rigorous intersectional praxis by addressing four criteria: (1) narrative fidelity and (2) narrative cohesion, (3) self-reflexivity, and (4) connecting the personal to the political—via representational, structural, and political intersectionality, respectively.
