There is a growing ideological divide in the field of family literacy between programs that are striving to colonize families with middle-class European-American literacy practices, and those based on Freire's philosophy which works toward affirming diverse family literacy practices. The Freirean alternative includes "culture circles" for the growth of critically conscious participants and family educators, who work toward "reading the word and the world" while working to transform that world into a better place for all. Organizing various culture circles has enabled the authors to examine critically and coreconstruct a reflective narrative on the role of the culture circle's "co-coordinator" or "leader," as well as to reinvent themselves as "decolonizing family literacy educators." This article is a step in this reinvention.