Counter-Storying Lives and Literacies: Narratives of Transformational Resistance

This article employs counterstorytelling to present a layered, nuanced rendering of two bilingual, bicultural Latinas’ school leaving. Data were taken from an ethnographic narrative inquiry into the literacy identities of five women who participated in a women’s literacy initiative. Situated within a critical race feminista praxis, we interpret linkages between participants’ school experiences and transformational resistance. Findings indicate...