ABSTRACT
Despite the emphasis on the personal-is-political in autoethnographic work, naming, claiming, and declaring the “f” word in autoethnography through discussion of feminist thinking and wondering as theory, philosophy, and writing is largely absent. In this “memo/ry” chapter, my aim is to explore the personal-is-political relationship between autoethnography and feminist movement as a feminist autoethnographer by putting to work, as Ahmed suggests, the tools of feminism and feminist theory to build a wise, loving, and response-able praxis of feminist autoethnography. Indeed, our response-ability to write autoethnography which is ethico-onto-epistemological and always already critical, wise, and loving all at once, is what makes feminist autoethnography a possible thing. Love, being-in love, and be/coming in love as personal-is-political work is a central trope, and my hope is to invite others to find and fall in love with feminist theory as a most necessary and urgent task in autoethnography.
