..., ficto-feminism fuses aspects of collective biography with the emic potential of autoethnography and rhizomatic capacity of fictocriticism to advance not only a new account of history in subject but also in style of writing. Findings The aim of ficto-feminism is to create a plausible, powerful...

...-engage with qualitative scholarship that generally seeks to exclude Black women. Design/methodology/approach Theoretically informed by Collins' outsider-within concept, the authors use Deleuze and Parnet's collective biography to tell the stories of four Black doctoral students negotiating race...