博論構想2024/06/26

The explanation of my “Ethnographic practice as a type of healing therapy/healing modality” is below;

I plan to call my project Para Ethnography Writing Therapy or Therapeutic Para Ethnography Writing. This involves processing trauma with my community members, including healers, sexy dancers, researchers who are IBPOC, gender and/or sexually diverse, and those with kink lifestyles.

I am engaging trauma processing as part of my own journey to explore who I am, about my multiple identities, as Ainu First Nation in Japan, trans masculine, neurodivergent, with a kinky life style, performing as dragpolesque dancer, walking the healer path as a Reiki master with members of my communities in BC or a wider range, North America.

This could count as a part of my project already, if I have to be limited to talking about only my experiences in spending time with my people for my healing, as experiencing how I could journal my everyday life and life stories. Also, I post about it on SNSs and my people and I exchange feelings, thoughts, ideas, and share sameness. That is a part of creating or composing Para Ethnography.

BUT ALTHOUGH we are each on our healing Journey, we share how to survive this traumatic world as individuals who have multiple identities, as therapeutic experiences. So I want to call it Therapeutic Writing.

The therapeutic experiences are called processing. It involves verbalizing, and I plan to focus on this. It has two aspects: 1) Giving words to things I am afraid to say out loud or write down. 2) Giving words to feelings that are vague and difficult to articulate. I will try to do this collaboratively with members of my community. I position this work as a form of para-ethnography, aiming to document the therapeutic effects as part of writing para-ethnography.