We are three Latin American women, once travellers -- now US dwellers, "mujeres de color," "Mestizas," "Neplanteras" -- sometimes 'Malintzin researchers' struggling to make sense of all our pieces, identities and changing faces. We draw upon the disruption of apartheid of knowledge in academia, arguing for counter-narratives through the use of "pláticas" and "testimonio" as tools to theorize personal experiences that contribute to the decolonization of educational research. We are advancing "pláticas" and "testimonios" as epistemological and methodological approaches to challenge and disrupt widespread Westernized research approaches that continue colonizing the U.S. education research.