ABSTRACT
This chapter reveals how the digital storytelling becomes a space for becoming teachers to tell their own stories of experiences that are tangled in their own hopes and despairs, and to do so in ways that allow for the working through of the darkness of racism, hatred, fear, and suffocating oppression. The digital stories may appear to simplify such encounters; however, people proposes that the storytelling process takes the becoming teacher to a space of writing in "words never used before". The chapter identifies trauma around critical incidents and trace the affective response from when the students first share this incident in writing and with peers, through the digital storytelling process, and on through focus group discussions. It argues through the strong poetry of digital dreamwork, that becoming teachers begin to settle the meaning of profound experiences that seem to defy expression.
