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My Body Knows Things

This Black Woman’s Storied Theory in Performative Autoethnography

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I was 3 or 4 years old the first time I felt a man’s penis. It belonged to my cousin, Jack. I think he was about 17 at the time. I loved him because he played with me, and to an only child that is everything.

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    Allison Upshaw

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Upshaw, A. (2017). My Body Knows Things. In: Pensoneau-Conway, S.L., Adams, T.E., Bolen, D.M. (eds) Doing Autoethnography. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-158-2_7

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