Citation

Purnell DF. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 2020; 9(1): 46-62.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020)

DOI

10.1525/dcqr.2020.9.1.46

PMID

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Abstract

Inspired by Dwight Conquergood, who calls on scholars to engage in intimate conversations, I offer an autoethnographic approach to explore the interconnectivity between place attachment, shame culture, and what I refer to as identity suicide through my journey to finding an attachment to place, to having interaction. Through these findings, I discovered the self-acceptance that had always been a struggle to reach due to the choices I was making within the shame culture in which I was living. This work is a reflective processing of my choices along this journey-choices that are denied to so many other queer individuals. © 2020 by the Regents of the University of California.

Language: en

Keywords

Identity; Autoethnography; Place attachment; Shame culture