“I’ll Walk Out if You Walk Out”: A Comic on How Students of Color Utilize Racial Micropolitical Literacy in Their Everyday Lives

Advocating for an expansive view of Youth Participatory Action Research that considers everyday practices in mundane life as essential for building just and thriving futures, the authors co-created a comic to illustrate the inventive ways youth of color co-create educational possibilities for racially just futures in everyday classroom life. Framed through a racial micropolitical literacy framework and based on a real-life narrative, their scholarship in comic form invites youth, practitioners, and scholars to re-frame and re-present learning, teaching, studying, and living educational justice in renewed ways. Specifically, the authors highlight the ingenious practices of youth of color who are already engaging in alternative inquiries and solutions for a racially just and harm-free world, which can expand collective actions and imaginations for social transformation.