Provocateur Piece^*: Difficult Knowledge: When a Black Feminist Educator Was Too Afraid to #SayHerName

In this Provocateur Piece, the author shares her regrets, mistakes, and fears in hopes that more conversations about how educators, especially Black female educators who are on the front lines of educating students about race-centered violence toward women, have a space to wrestle with the difficult knowledge and task of teaching anti-Black, state-sanctioned violence toward Black women, while dealing with the reality that their lives and spirits are also in danger.