Author‐ize me to write: Going back to writing with ourfingers

Abstract

To the fe/male author, to write is to feel, to think, to touch, to sense, to learn, to experience, to relate, and to perform the body in the text with the fingers.

Unsanitized writing practices: Attending to affect and embodiment throughout the research process

“…In this methodological paper we want to address the limitations of conventional masculine academic research and writing practices for producing embodied and affective accounts. This echoes the work of scholars who have engaged in “writing differently” in order to voice marginalized perspectives in Management and Organization Studies (e.g., Mandalaki, 2020; Phillips et al., 2014; Pullen, 2018; Pullen et al., 2020; Pullen & Rhodes, 2015) and who have successfully opened up space to write about experiences that are usually silenced in academia, such as those around motherhood (Boncori & Smith, 2019; Van Amsterdam, 2015), transsexuality (O'Shea, 2018), religion (Jamjoom, 2020), and race/ethnicity (Anthym, 2018). Many of these papers are written in resistance to academic conventions that tend to colonize the experiences of marginalized people through the value placed on authority, linearity, and productivity.…”

Writing memory work through artistic intersections. Unplugged

“…Our art transmits the sensory repertoires that travel with us from other places, the borders that we cross, that we shape and are shaped by (Iscen, 2014; O’Neill, 2017) geographically, psychologically, socially and politically (Johansson & Jones, 2020), opening the way to new ways of knowing attentive to the senses. It resembles a sense of hearing with the eyes, of reading with the ears, of seeing with the heart; a full‐bodied sensorial (Ashcraft, 2018) and sensational experience that awakes our senses allowing us to touch and be touched by one another in this text (Brewis & Williams, 2019; Mandalaki, 2021a; Pullen & Rhodes, 2008) to enter these “clicking moments” that puzzle our and others’ existences and make sense of the complex processes that shape us in life (Ahmed, 2016). For, when art touches us, it enables us to “crack our social coating and drill through our true feelings,” to return back to our authentic, unconstrained by social conventions selves, to bring out memories of the true “me” and “us” apart and together and to focus on inward significance as opposed to outward appearance (Christensen, 2020).…”

Tread lightly: Liminality and Covid‐19 reflections

“…I reflect on the gendered impact of the pandemic; I reflect on systemic inequalities, and I reflect on my own experience in the pandemic. I do so by drawing on feminist methods of writing differently (Biehl‐Missal, 2015; Clancy, 2020; Gilmore et al., 2019; Grey & Sinclair, 2006; Handforth & Taylor, 2016; Lykke, 2014; Mandalaki, 2020; Pullen, 2018; van Eck et al., 2021), and so my voice, though at times overshadowed by my societal reflections, is present. I write emotionally, and at times my voice is at a distance.…”