We be audacious: blackgirlwomen educators making space where there ain’t none, being subversive & staying black

As Black women educators, we argue that for us to be audacious, we had to embody our ancestors’ boldness amid oppression and use our intersectional strengths to disrupt systemic barriers. Guided by the frameworks of Afropessimism and Afrofuturism, we argue that audacity is a mechanism that insists our existence into the future. We introduce Fugitive Blackgirlwoman Duoautoethnography to refute the imposed marginalization of Black women. We argue that audacity, as we frame it, is part of the legacy passed down through generations, and integral to the ways in which we hold space, ourselves, and each other.