Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation in 2010 catapulted young people around the country to mobilize a revolution. The protests found their epicentre in Sidi Bouzid and quickly spread to the surrounding towns of Thala, Kasserine, Sbeitla, Menzel Bouzayane. These are the most historically marginalised and disadvantaged areas of the country, where unchilding occurs on a daily basis. Young people were responding to daily economic hardships, coupled with structurally repressive political measures and police violence. Their peaceful street protests rapidly transformed into violent clashes with the state security forces and the police, resulting in the first wounded and martyred youth of the Tunisian revolution. Within a month, the young people’s heroic actions unseated autocratic president Ben Ali, who had unanimously held office for 23 years. The effects of the youth’s revolutionary actions were also felt at the intimate level, touching, disrupting, and changing the protester’s and their family dynamics. Based on my fieldwork conducted with 29 children (aged 10-17) and 21 youth (18-26 years old) in Tunisia in 2018 and 2019, the paper demonstrates the role of young people in the 2010-2011 revolutionary mobilizations highlighting various forms of resistance undertook against the authoritarian regime. Shalhoub-Kevorkian argues that the infrastructure of unchilding operates partly through spatial control and also in the intangible world of language. My paper argues that activism against unchilding also occupies these two realms. I look at the physical and imaginary space where young people work to resist normalized authoritarian oppression and violence, and to exercise their political agency. I also consider the intergenerational and intragenerational ramifications of violence and trauma experiences and their mutation in political activism. My case studies explore specifically how trauma from political violence impacted the everyday life of siblings of the wounded and martyred, and how it affected the interplay between protester’s activism and their parent’s past political activism.