Paj Xyeem

Paj Xyeem reflects a time period when I was processing my educational experience. It expresses emotions of being invisibilized—existing without seen or heard—in U.S. academic spaces. This invisibility is the ways in which belonging intellectual spaces were challenged and denied. Xyeem, translated to grade, captures moments made invisible classrooms that operated on White Supremacist ideology. In this writing, highlight problematic processes classroom policies teaching pedagogies centered Whiteness. Additionally, poem instances given majoritarian narrative (Solórzano & Yosso, 2002) replace mine; stories lived experiences deemed an outlier, making knowledge less significant therefore erasable. trace how relived feelings inferior fear breaking silence. Yet, also pay attention resisted invisiblized. When afraid speak, spoke silence through writing. The process writing entirely Hmong re-centered myself. myself visible by for me native language. Thus, byproduct resistance.