MC-DIP

"I seek an interpretive social science that is simultaneously autoethnographic, vulnerable, performative, and critical. This is a social science that refuses abstractions and high theory. It is a way of being in the world, away of writing, hearing, and listening. Viewing culture as a complex performative process, it seeksto understand how people enact and construct meaning in their daily lives. This is a return to narrative as a political act, a social science that has learned how to use the reflexive, dialogic interview. This social science inserts itself into the world in a an empowering way. It uses the words and stories that individuals tell to fashion performance texts that imagine new worlds, worlds where humans can become who they wish to be, free of prejudice, repression, and discrimination." (Denzin, 2003).

"I seek a writing form that is part memoir, part essay, part autoethnography... I write from scenes of memory, re-arrangeing, suppressing, even inventing scenes, forgoing claims to exact truth or factual accuracy, search instead for emotional truth, for deep meaning." (Stegner, 1990)

"boundaries of creative non-fiction ...... which will always be as fluid as water". (Blew, 1999)