Authoethnography as an Act of Resistance Against Narratives of Hatred

On November 8, 2016, a presidential candidate running on a campaign marked by exclusion and hatred against so many Others won the election and the U.S. Executive Branch. We, the authors, went from being concerned with the reverberations of Trump’s narrative of hatred to the shocking realization that we were entering an era of renewed politics of hatred and exclusion. In this article, we talk about how our autoethnography can help us find our common humanity in the spaces between Us and Them. We talk about our hope that autoethnography can help us trouble the simplistic fixed identities of the Other required for campaigns of hatred and exclusion, how it can help us stay anchored to the notion that hope for unconditional inclusion is not a choice but an ontological necessity