On February 15, 2023, Florida students protested Governor DeSantis' plan to eliminate AP courses in African American studies. On February 23, students held walkouts in response to DeSantis' anti-LGBTQ policies—including compelling Florida colleges to turn over information about those who seek gender-affirming health care. These walkouts and similar kinds of youth activism can be understood very differently, depending on how one understands youth themselves. . . (a) Tell me how someone within the "dominant framework" (Lee) of childhood (or how someone who believes in the "confident characterizations" [Lesko] of adolescence) might understand these young people's actions. (b) Tell me how Lee and/or Lesko, themselves, would want us to understand these young people's actions, instead?