“…As a classroom teacher and researcher, I used the slam poetry class space to coconstruct this study along with Brittany and Andrew (Leavy, 2009;Norris, 2013;Percer, 2002). This collaboration is consistent with the critical inquiry paradigm in which I, as the researcher, sought to create equitable power relationships and construct knowledge along with research participants (Broido & Manning, 2002).…”