An Immigrant Teacher’s Politic Account of Revising Their Becoming as an Outsider

This autoethnography focuses on the entanglements of how various forms of “rejection” and/or “exclusion” hit the embodied knowing of the immigrant “I” and their multiple ways of being and doing. In examining a multiplicity of selves, the author expresses their inner experiences as an outsider across various times and places. Through a poetic space, certain life events, emerging from the language’s performativity, permit us to read life-writing texts not as a record but as the liminal space where a sense of self is realized or, in some instances, de-realized. The author questions whether it is even possible for the rejected individuals to articulate their realities in academy. This work encapsulates the theme of searching for a place, both physically and metaphorically. This article calls for the ethical necessity of writing personal experiences as felt knowledge, rectifying the prevailing discourse about an/other’s being and knowing.