As I write this editorial introduction, I am experiencing pride and a heavy heart simultaneously. My pride comes from hosting the brilliant contributions of authors in this issue. To be able to host such transformative work that created growth and epiphanic moments for the authors, which has the potential of being a breakthrough force for so many, is indeed a reason to be proud and grateful.
Yet, just days ago, Ajike Owens, a Black woman and a mother, was brutally shot by a white woman in Ocala, Florida, 30 minutes away from where I live with my partner and two dogs. The white woman, Susan Lorincz, assaulted Owens’s children by throwing their own iPad that she had confiscated illegally. Ajike, with her 9-year-old child, went to confront her soon-to-be murderer for hurting her children. Susan Lorincz shot her from behind her metal apartment doors. I am shaken by the trauma...
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