**Acknowledgements**

We are profoundly grateful to the countless Black women in the U.S. who have tirelessly raised the collective consciousness of others. We also thank Michele Simone, Nicola Sochacka and Roger Burton for the generous gift of their thought partnership in editing this manuscript. We acknowledge and celebrate our creative Olin community--past present and future--in all that we have done to stretch in the direction of our better selves. This work was made possible in part by a grant from the Coalition for Life Transformative Education.
