This piece reflects on the liberatory power of self-making; the Queer, Trans, Two-Spirit, Black, Indigenous, or Person of Color (QT2SBIPOC) reframing of kinship; and the act of relational co-witnessing as essential modes of “kin-ing” and becoming. Centered on a roll calling moment within an Indigenous studies classroom, this narrative highlights an educator’s use of humour to bring levity to an often racially charged and gender essentializing encounter. Through this act, the simple gesture of writing a name is shifted from a spectacle to an affirmation of QT2SBIPOC Joy. It becomes a way of reclaiming agency through co-witnessing and co-making, ultimately enabling the disruption of the “tragic being:” a colonial trope that frames marginalized existences as inherently marked by suffering, erasure, or loss. The story underscores how communal laughter, joy, and kinship serve as vital forms of resistance against the colonial death-making practice of erasure, calling attention to the relational and collective nature of freedom-making for QT2SBIPOC.