Fierce Love: Fashioning Becoming a Researcher

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Sarah R. Pickett

Abstract

This paper explores problematic discourses associated with becoming a researcher in the academy through the arts based research methods of autoethnography and narrative performance. I attempt to enhance awareness and contribute to growing knowledge surrounding the experience of becoming a researcher via fragments of my coming out journey, my experience as a psychotherapist and the evolution of my view of a researcher. Through performance-based frameworks and personal evocative writing toward inquiry I weave specific interactions with theoretical positioning. I highlight the collision of discourses and how both vulnerability and critical reflection paved the way in my becoming a researcher.


Key Words: Arts based Research; Education; Researcher Identity Development; Autoethnography; Narrative Performance; Queer; LGBTQ; Microaggressions, Counselling

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Sarah R. Pickett, Memorial University Newfoundland

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Assistant Professor

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