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I argue that people who have been targeted by attempted spirit murder in the academy have either internalized the practice of spirit murder and become spirit murderers themselves, or they have resisted and survived attempted spirit murder in the academy by banding together, protecting each other, and creating spirit restorative teams. Peers, mentors, family, and/or community members have often transformed themselves into spirit protectors and spirit restorers. I pay respects particularly to women, queer people, muxeristas, jotería, and Black Indigenous People of Color, activists, and/or scholars who have been my spirit protectors and restorers.  \nKeywords: Attempted spirit murder, spirit restorers, spirit protectors  \nIntroduction  \nThis photo (see Figure 1) reads,“What would your occupation be if you had followed your childhood dreams?” It was shared many times on social media in October of 2020. It seemed to awaken something inside people who read and shared it. I have been asking folks a similar question  \nAnita Tijerina Revilla is a professor in the Department of Chicana(o) and Latina(o) Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. E-mail address: [arevill2@calstatela.edu](arevill2@calstatela.edu)  \nFigure 1  \n“What would your occupation be if you had followed your childhood dreams?”Retrieved from social media on October 20, 2020. Author unknown.  \nfor the past 15 to 20 years every time I have given a lecture about spirit murder.“What did you dream of becoming when you were young?”I ask. Each time I have asked, I witness people traveling through time and space back to a time when they felt young, hopeful, vulnerable, scared, or uncertain about their futures. Sometimes they feel delight or joy about their past dreams. Perhaps they dreamt of becoming the president of the United States or becoming a superhero. Maybe they wanted to bea teacher or a doctor, and they became one so they feel accomplished as they recollect their journey. Sadly, many feel sadness, nostalgia, or pain for not being able to attain their dreams. I ask them who or what is responsible for them not having achieved their dreams, and the lookson their faces tell many stories. A handful of times, audience members or students in my classes have shyly admitted that as children, their possibilities and visions for the future were so bleak that they simply had no dreams or expectations. When this happens, Ipause, acknowledge the pain they are feeling and ask us to hold that person in tenderness and love. I proceed by discussing the systemic structures of discrimination that likely contributed to making their dreams elusive, as well as the people who might have espoused the ‘isms and ‘phobias that likely helped to kill their dreams.  \nAs I write this essay, I hold all of us who have been harmed by attempted and accomplished spirit murder with deep love and tenderness. Simultaneously, I invoke the power of our spirit protectors and spirit restorers. With this essay, I call in the spirit protectors and restorers to honor them and pay our respects for the work they have done in guiding us and helping us arrive at the places and locations we are in today.  \nSubject Position  \nSince subject position is everything in my analysis of the law, you deserve to know that it’s a bad morning. I am very depressed. 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