{"id":3663,"date":"2026-10-14T11:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:19:08","slug":"new-book-the-stories-we-carry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/2026\/new-book-the-stories-we-carry\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book: The Stories We Carry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        New Book: The Stories We Carry\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Align Media Lab&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoethnographics.org\/\">AutoethnoGraphics<\/a> initiative is pleased to publish our inaugural book, &#8220;The Stories We Carry: Self, Scar, Struggle&#8221;, co-edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/merlyna.lim\">Merlyna Lim<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dobson.kathy\">Kathy Dobson<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This genre-blending collection features narrative non-fiction essays from 22 contributors\u2014academics, artists, journalists, and storytellers\u2014who refuse to separate personal experience from scholarly inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The collection unfolds in three interconnected movements: Self, Scar, and Struggle, examining how identity is shaped through history, gender, embodiment, and migration; how trauma and exclusion leave lasting marks; and how survival requires ongoing negotiation with institutions, technology, and community. Each essay is accompanied by hand-drawn illustrations, making the personal visible and visceral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The contributors challenge academic conventions that dismiss personal writing as less rigorous, arguing instead that the narrated self is a legitimate site of knowledge. Their stories address Islamophobia, poverty, colonialism, queerness, neurodivergence, immigration bureaucracy, and the politics of belonging. This is not a book seeking inclusion in broken institutions, but one that insists the table itself must be rebuilt. It asks readers to sit with complexity, contradiction, and the unfinished work of being human.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get your copy here: <a href=\"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/publication\/the-stories-we-carry\/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAcGRvZgVicmlkETFrYm9GVjFrQko1T0hNbnF2c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHjpa3k8ypTKxRjY9gAOT0KVYgshP-At3FSSXCKlmcQhgm1I8Otnca3W56h6L_aem_lqrwzauu_UjAFuK9n0C76Q\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/darajapress.com\/publication\/the-stories-we-carry\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/publication\/the-stories-we-carry\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/10\/SWC_cover_hi_2-683x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" class=\"wp-image-3664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/10\/SWC_cover_hi_2-683x1024-1.jpg 683w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/10\/SWC_cover_hi_2-683x1024-1-512x768.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2026\/10\/SWC_cover_hi_2-683x1024-1-320x480.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Book Cover: The Stories We Carry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Align Media Lab&#8217;s AutoethnoGraphics initiative is pleased to publish our inaugural book, &#8220;The Stories We Carry: Self, Scar, Struggle&#8221;, co-edited by Merlyna Lim and Kathy Dobson. This genre-blending collection features narrative non-fiction essays from 22 contributors\u2014academics, artists, journalists, and storytellers\u2014who refuse to separate personal experience from scholarly inquiry. 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