This is a Collective Auto-Ethnographic Participatory Action Research that uses critical race-gendered epistemologies (Bernal Delgado, 2002, pp.109-110) as a theoretical framework to understand our Ethnic Studies work in schools. Teaching Ethnic Studies is a creation process where we are not only denouncing injustice, we are creating our own sovereign spaces of knowledge production through Courageous Cuentos and healing individually and collectively. Findings show that we experienced transformation as we co-create, define, collectively heal, and document what it means to be LatinE/ ChicanX social justice educator in rural Northern California through Courageous Cuentos.