In Search of My Mother’s Stories: (Re)membering Endarkened Storywork

In this chapter, Toliver explains how her dissertation led her to the coining of Endarkened Storywork, a research storytelling format that builds on Endarkened Feminist Epistemologies, Indigenous Storywork, and Afrofuturism. To detail the history of the terms’ creation, she highlights familial storytelling influences that asked her to grasp at the roots of Black storytelling, at the foundations of Black qualitative research presentation through story. Rather than explicitly detail the fullness of the concept, Toliver provides a storied example that presents Endarkened Storywork in action, enabling readers to not only read about the method, but to also engage in the work of story alongside the author.