Can the personal also be the academic?
Here are more inspiring pieces on the use of YOU in academic writing:
The Vulnerable Observer by Ruth Behar
What Should Count as Educational Research: Notes Toward a New Paradigm by Jean Anyon (Pages 17-26 in this online textbook)
READ How to Get Going with Personal Narrative in Scholarly Writing by Yvette Hyater-Adams
READ this piece by Tom Barone (Pages 213 - 230 in this online textbook). Making Educational History: Qualitative Inquiry, Artistry, and the Public Interest
READ Personal ~ Passionate ~ Participatory Inquiry: Research for Social Justice by Ming Fang He and JoAnn Phillion.
READ & Explore PORTRAITURE by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot