In Response to the Activist Affect of “Risky Business, Uncertain Futures . . .”: (Special Issue)

The respondent to the 2025 Autoethnography Special Interest Group (SIG) session at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI), offers brief commentary on the potency of the panel. At the same time, he signals the reader to a more extended response/reaction to the panel published in the International Review of Qualitative Inquiry immediately after the performance panel. The author uses the constructs of “activist affect” and “activist effects” as meaningful tools to reinforce the importance of the panel (and panelist) to inspire critical response through qualitative inquiry as activism.