This book chronicles one Black feminist's attempt to "make sense" of how Black Feminist Scholars negotiate power, navigate oppression, and resist domination in academia. The author examines her experiences with a backdrop of Critical Race Theory, Critical Race Feminism, and Critical Discourse Analysis, and by utilizing a secondary and textual analysis of Sister Outsider (2007) by Audre Lorde, and Teaching to Transgress (1994) by bell hooks. The author generates a framework for Black Women to successfully negotiate their tight spaces within hegemonic institutions of domination-the academy. Additionally this book attempts to provide transformational knowledge as a roadmap for other Black women in the academy as they journey along their path of the unfamiliar.