In this exhilarating volume. . . . womanist thinkers and scholar activists invent poetics of justice through their life writing; honor the diversities, contradictions, and complexities of knowledge, power, and difference; and transgress the epistemological, ontological, and axiological boundaries to illuminate how a recognition of Black women as living texts shatters ‘imperialist White supremacist capitalist patriarchy,’ decolonizes space and place, and cultivates generations of emergent women of color scholar activists to become the light in troubling times.