ABSTRACT
Black girls and women are often positioned uniquely as they are constantly negotiating issues of race and gender in a society that is primarily dominated by whiteness. In this chapter, authors authentically interrogate their socialization into and through the academy, by engaging readers with their differing experiences, interpretations, and reactions with being Black women educators and activist scholars via a found poem. The found poem presents a dialogic engagement with the hashtag #BlackintheIvory and conceptualizes a critical inquiry into the intersections of womanhood and racial representation in the academy.
