<i>Nothing Happened</i>

This critical autoethnography narrates four transformative turning points that took place in the life of the author, in Colombia and over the span of thirty-five years. Through the process of storying, the author recalls, reconstructs, and recreates peak experiences that left scars and were life-altering, and ponders their significance. In this process, the author proposes the concept of nonevents as invisibilized incidents of violence that have been neutralized by practices of oppression, subordination, or silencing; and identifies nothing happened as a revelatory phrase that limits discourse, disciplines the subject, and condemns lived experience to nonexistence. It is proposed that naming nonevents would help identify forms of violence that have been rendered habitual as well as acknowledge instances of nonviolent action dismissed as trivial. The themes that emerge through this exploration include the intersectional experience of violence in public spaces; nonevents as normalized incidents of violence; conflict as the dialogical space from which either violence or nonviolence may emerge; the scream as a tool of resistance to subjection; and the technologies of the self, of signification, and of power, which keep the subject disciplined but that yield transformation. Finally, the article proposes practicing an autoethnographic “scream” that can help resignify everyday experience and resist practices of oppression, subordination, or silencing.