“For me, the challenge is trying to figure out how to <>conjure change as an "inside outsider" or "outside insider" depending on how I am viewed within the academy or in BIPOC settings; how to mess with seemingly intractable structures that dehumanize and demean; how to fix systemic problems that are inimical to Black thriving and lead inexorably to social death; and how to create -- doctor up, as it were -- pockets of resistance, maroon communities -- within and outside of primarily white universities where Black scholars and allies can thrive.”