ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that research that centers on Black women enables different questions and unearths different answers to the state of the current conjuncture, in which the violences of inequity are both physical and epistemic. This simply means that dominant discursive formations have created inhospitable social and political environments for certain marginalized groups by disavowing voice, personhood, and claims to citizenship. When building collaborative community action partnerships with local Black women leaders and activists, author believes that it is imperative that do not simply observe and interpret but also struggle in disagreement and build strategic alliances with women resisting the privatization of their communities knowing that they may very well encounter public censorship for their risky tactical maneuvers. The chapter invites a community of Black women whose situated knowledge has been categorized as illegitimate by dominant discourse to embrace their multiple ways of being in the world by creating a space where dialogic exchange and disagreement is expected.
