No, that's absolutely not what I am saying. I'm saying it's good to show students they can be incomplete/ imperfect. That can feel quite personal - but we academics are like this too. It's ok, for eg, to be upset in response to texts - it can even be incorporated into your work.
But this is what is perplexing to me. The point of autoethnography is to center experience. And you are imagining that instructors who are almost entirely white and often male will have the experience to understand their most marginalized students. So what exactly are you saying
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Oh, gosh no! I don't think it's about understanding someone else's experience. It's about modelling how *we* are - not pretending to be perfect. I don't know about you but I was hugely intimidated by my teachers. I thought only they got to talk about sexuality - not me!
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