This article highlights how Chicanx/Latinx youth draw on their lived realities as lenses to guide their inquiry and share their findings in a Youth Participatory Action Research project. In this project, youth collected testimonios from residents and staff within their migrant housing community to better understand histories of migration and community building. Drawing on a critical multimodal analysis framework which centers Chicanx/Latinx youth literacies and epistemologies, this article focuses on how youth drew on their community cultural knowledge and lived experiences in multimodal creation to bring attention to sociopolitical issues they cared about and impacted their community.A fter collecting oral and written testimonios from residents at Comunidad Miravalle, a migrant housing complex, youth researchers spread their data across a large table to collectively analyze the lived experiences of their community members. They highlighted excerpts of printed-out testimonios in different colored markers, cut up pieces of text, and made piles according to themes that emerged. During a break from this youth-driven data analysis, I posted a question on the dry-erase board that asked, "How is your interpretation of the data different than if someone else was looking at it?" In his journal response, David stated, "Because we have lived it and we studied all these things. " Similarly, Rolando's journal response read, "Because [the other person] is just reading it, not knowing […] all that the people that live here go through. " Through their writing, David and Rolando both highlighted the epistemological orientations Latinx youth bring to youth participatory action research (YPAR). Their words emphasized the knowledge and expertise that comes from living one's own reality and bringing that understanding to inquiry. Like David and Rolando, other youth in the group recognized the sensibilities they carried with them as assets to their research. They agreed that being members of Comunidad Miravalle offered them a unique perspective that others would not have when looking at the data. This knowledge is central to understanding how literacies are embodied, reflective of lived experiences, and leveraged by youth who are given the opportunity to participate in community research.Scholars have looked at the unique knowledge Chicanx/Latinx 1 youth bring with them to their literacy practices, especially how those literacies reflect the experiences of navigating racialized, gendered, sex-