Searching Self-Image: Identities To Be Self-Evident

Naming can alternatively be a definition of identity or a source of stigma. Un-naming can alter a story and serve to unhinge fixed definitions, initiating a democratic discourse that finds its own way of escaping the thrall of hegemony and dominating canons. Can qualitative research serve to un-name axiomatic frameworks of identity? This article is written to follow up to the author’s Messing Around With Identity Constructs and continues his effort to establish the efficacy of a poststructural and poetic aesthetic in research writing.