ABSTRACT
Based on a study exploring the role of spirituality in the lives of Black women pursuing engineering doctorates, this chapter provides a reimagining of researcher/participant relationships in qualitative research and highlights new possibilities in cultivating research relationships that are both humanising and healing. This reimagining is guided by two frameworks. The first is Black feminist thought enunciated by Patricia Hill Collins to affirm Black women's knowledge claims through lived experience, the centrality of dialogue, and ethics of personal accountability and care. The second is endarkened feminist epistemology's methodology of surrender forwarded by Cynthia Dillard, which embraces love, compassion, reciprocity, and ritual.
