ABSTRACT
Autoethnography creates the medium for women to reclaim their authority and sovereignty over their own narratives and challenge existing codes of silence. The project the authors designed with RISE sought to value the women as co-researchers who would – if it was safe for them – be named in the research and their stories valued as research, rather than data to be analysed. To provide safe spaces to share stories and writing and consider how these works could be published to engage other service users and community stakeholders — police, healthcare and social services. The workshops at RISE took place on the top floor of a building that looked out over the Brighton city skyline.
