ABSTRACT
Through storytelling, intersectional analysis, and sisterhood, two sisters share their unique and collective narrative as two Black womxn and femmes who grew up in a rural and predominantly white school system in the (physical) absence of their incarcerated father. Their collective narrative on information evasion (IE) contributes to nuanced frameworks of mapping the effects of parental incarceration, propelling discourse on the stigma and social exclusion children face when a parent is imprisoned. They call school practitioners to implement abolitionist teaching and scholars to incorporate storytelling on the educational, psychosocial, and emotional lifeworlds of children with incarcerated parents. In sharing their experiences with IE, they hope to accentuate the minutiae of mass incarceration and how they – and others – survive its impact.
