The organizers of the Autoethnography Special Interest Group for the 12th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry brought together various autoethnographers to meditate on the theme of “manifesting” autoethnography. Taking up the challenge, the authors use reflexive narrative, poetry, music, and movement to offer one manifestation of autoethnography in the future. We, Hill L. Waters, write into the future, auto\ethnography as a Black, queer, collective, and spiritual praxis and politic. This future into which we are writing is borne of necessity to enhance the life chances and life possibilities of Black queer people.
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