Chapter 16: How Can I be Like You?: A Tri-Vocal Account of Intergenerational Mentoring and Queen Mothering

Drawing from Black emancipatory frameworks, this chapter shares three distinct stories of queen mothers in the academy. Each of the stories explains the intergenerational impact of academic queen mothering as well as the spiritual imperative to do it. Each story explores the spiritual nature of queen mothering by probing three questions: (1) Who am I? (2) Am I really who I think I am? and (3) Am I all I ought to be? All three stories explain that queen mothering is healing work for ourselves and for our students.