In his later works, and in his calls for the annual International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Norman K. Denzin repeatedly called on qualitative scholars to use their work to advance activism and social justice in the midst of almost constant global crises—war, famine, upheaval, revolution, climate change, political division, strife of all stripes. In this autoethnographic essay, I search for ways to respond to the current troubled, turbulent moment in our collective history. Can autoethnography work as counterforce to the rise of totalitarianism? Can we write into and through the crisis we are engulfed in?
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