Being the Other

This autoethnography presents the experience of being othered to becoming an agent of change. Topics are presented as autoethnographic vignettes. The vignettes are critically analyzed from multiple perspectives to provide the rich multi-dimensional touch points that describe our lives. These perspectives include Helm's (1990) perspective on racial identity Bussey and Bandura's (1999) take on developmental gender identification Jones' (2012) ideas for resisting homophobia in schools. Othering (Caballero 2009; Dwyer & Buckle 2009) is looked at as a racial religious gendered and cultural phenomenon. Emigration is also discussed from the perspective of internalized oppression (Williams 2012). In addition LGBT topics are explored (Butler 1993; Culler 2007; Duke 2008).