Poetry is Politics

Abstract

Through an autoethnographic poetry manifesto, the author makes the case for poetry as political, poetry as feminist practice, poetry as social research and autoethnography, poetry as the personal that becomes the universal, and poetry as visionary activism. The use of personal poetry engages the political power of poetry to present embodied, nuanced, and myriad scenes of marginalized and stigmatized identities.

Open Science From a Qualitative, Feminist Perspective: Epistemological Dogmas and a Call for Critical Examination

“…In particular, these methods have been employed to examine experiences unique to women and members of systematically marginalized groups (e.g., Hordyk et al, 2014), and I argue that these methods are critical to feminist psychology in the very ways in which they challenge deeply embedded and internalized biases toward the role of creativity in research. As a form of arts-based inquiry, poetry is a means of communicating participant data evocatively (Koelsch, 2015), and the use of poems to facilitate inquiry is, as some have argued, an explicitly feminist methodology (Faulkner, 2017(Faulkner, , 2018Reed, 2005). Importantly, inquiry rooted in the creative arts has served as a site for thematic exploration that is especially relevant for feminist and marginalized perspectives (Faulkner, 2014;Gupta, 2020;Koelsch, 2016).…”

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“…These erased words offered alternative readings (e.g., "XX and don't have X" and "life that reflects their true selves regardless") that disrupted notions of singular discourses about feminine sexuality and the stigmatization of particular sexual identities. Erasure can help activate poetry's political potential (Faulkner, 2017), by engaging a ''political voice'' (Orr, 2008, p. 416) that confronts sites of ideological struggle about gendered regulation, cultural inequities, and hegemony.…”

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