We, Abiola and Bettie (sista and mama scholars), editors of this special issue offer an overiew of authors’ works. Here, we welcome you to sit, stay a while, and partake in their collective wisdom, truths, and expereinces. We invite you to allow yourself to become undone and reconnect with self as these authors share their me-searchers in hopes that you, too, will find your “me” in qualitataive research. With love, A & B.
CollinsP. H. (2000). Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness and the politics of empowerment (2nd ed.). Routledge.
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DevendorfA. R. (2022). Is “me-search” a kiss of death in mental health research?American Psychological Services, 19(1), 49–54.
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DillardC. B.NealA. M. (2021). Still following our north star: The necessity of Black women’s spiritual (re)membering in qualitative (re)search. Qualitative Inquiry, 27(10), 1182–1190.
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DouglasT. R. (2017). My reasonable response: Activating research, mesearch, and wesearch to build systems of healing. Critical Education, 8(2), 21–30.
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Farinde-WuA.GloverC. P.WilliamsN. N. (2017). It’s not hard work; it’s heart work: Strategies of effective, award-winning culturally responsive teachers. The Urban Review, 49(1), 279–299.
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GardnerS.HartJ.NgJ.Ropers-HuilmanR.WardK.Wolf-WendelL. (2017). “Mesearch”: Challenges and opportunities regarding subjectivity in knowledge construction. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 8(2), 88–108. https://doi.org/10.1108/SGPE-D-17-00014
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KressT. M. (2011). From research to me-search. In KressT. M. (Ed.), Critical praxis research: Breathing new life into research methods for teachers (pp. 219–231). Springer.
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LustickH. (2021). Our data, ourselves: A framework for using emotion in qualitative analysis. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 34(4), 353–366.
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NashR. J.BradleyD. L. (2011). Me-search and re-search: A guide for writing scholarly personal narrative manuscripts. Information Age Publishing.
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PatelL. (2016). Decolonizing educational research: From ownership to answerability. Routledge.
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SmithL. T. (2019). Decolonizing research: Indigenous storywork as methodology. Bloomsbury Publishing.
