In this article, the author uses storytelling to retell moments in the history of our field. Using personal anecdote alongside critical race theory and critical whiteness studies, she critiques the Writing About Writing movement by re-situating it in history: first narrating it as a contemporary of the Translingualism movement, and then comparing it with Mina Shaughnessy's Errors & Expectations. These two sets of narrative, historicized foils allow the author to develop a portrait of the Writing About Writing movement as a colorblind countermovement to the translingualism movement, a bid for power in the white context of academic institutions at a moment of austerity in the first decade of the 2000s. Instead of the Writing About Writing movement's colorblind and ahistorical portrait of what writing scholars know, the author tells stories that center translingualism and Students' Right to Their Own Language as central concepts to the study of rhetoric, composition, writing, and literacy.