“…This process challenges positivist epistemologies while engaging in systematic data analysis methods that transform the perceptions of the self and how other see ourselves (Kumar, 2020). Autoethnography disrupts Eurocentric approaches to research, such as colonial and “exotic” representations of subjects in ethnography (Chawla & Rodriguez, 2008; Ortega, 2021), by providing scholars with the space to engage in deep introspection and self-authorize (Farrell, 2017; Ortega, 2021; Sparkes, 2020; Tilley-Lubbs, 2016), and “centering of both the subject–object within a local and historical context” (Chawla & Atay, 2018, p. 4). Decolonial approaches to autoethnography focus on the hybridization of “practices, and identities, as well as on the ideologies, performances, and practices that actively question, critique, and challenge colonization” (Chawla & Atay, 2018, p. 5).…”