Cindy Cruz, the author of this text is a self-identified out lesbian of color who offers an ethnographical account of teaching a continuation high school program in Los Angeles for queer at risk youth. Cruz stresses the importance of teaching LGBTQ students of color during the time of the AIDS epidemic. A close reading of a piece created by a student is of focus, and the author discusses how the collaborative production of video poems allows the students to “story the self” and to create “theory in the flesh” as political interventions that creates work that can be used as “a teaching artifact for other students.”