Counter-storytelling

This article unveils experiences of displacement across two different geographic contexts among high school youth. The authors reveal the tensions embedded in the choice to write together across an intergenerational collective, exploring what it means to write as youth and as adults afraid to write for the youth.

This article speaks against the deficit stories and colonizing practices that have affected Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans pre- and post-Hurricane María. The authors' collaborative project in Florida humanizes the ongoing experiences of multiple displacements resulting from U.S. colonialism, racism, white supremacy ideologies, and unnatural disasters.