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Reynolds Ree Botts  \nFarima Pour-Khorshid  \nThe Journal of Educational Foundations Vol. 34, No. 1  \n2021, pp. 14-30  \nCopyright 2021 by Caddo Gap Press  \nAbstract  \n“Sis, but how is your spirit, though?” This is a question we ask eachother often, an inquiry that grounds us in the spiritual restoration that is necessary for our survival. We are women of color (WOC) academics trying our best to be well. As sisters first, and scholars second, our Critical Sisterhood Praxis demands that we show up on this page how we show up for each other—with unapologetic authenticity, compassionate care, and sacred intention. As we write within and beyond academia’s constraints, wereimagine what is possible for radical feminist scholarship written with our healing at the center. As we map our educational journeys of spirit murdering, we embody a collective effort of spiritual sustainability by affirming for ourselves that it is possible to be whole within and despite the academy.  \nKeywords: K-12 educators; spirit murdering; spiritual reclamation; healing praxis; Critical Sisterhood Praxis; Women of Color  \nAja D. Reynolds is an assistant professor in the Teacher Education Department of the College of Education at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Ree Botts is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Farima Pour-Khorshid is an assistant professor in the Teacher Education Department of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Their e-mail  \naddresses are: [areyno35@wayne.edu](areyno35@wayne.edu), [rebotts@berkeley.edu](rebotts@berkeley.edu), & [fpourkhorshid@usfca.edu](fpourkhorshid@usfca.edu)  \nSpirit Murdering and Slow Death: An Introduction  \nIn this article, we collectively narrate spirit murdering (Love, 2019; Williams, 1991) and spiritual reclamation, from our K-12 schooling to our experiences in academia today.1 By revealing the nuances of our varied“sites of suffering”(Dumas, 2014), we map the coexistence of past and present harm and healing to develop future “freedom dreams”(Kelley, 2002) for a healing praxis that validates the Women of Color (WOC) academic in her totality.  \nCentering the little Brown girl in each of us, we frame spirit murdering as an ongoing process of “slow death”(Love, 2016) that disconnects the academic from her inner child, the part of us that is most directly connected to spirit. Each time our spirit is murdered in the academy, that little Brown girl is triggered. She remembers when her body was policed, sexualized, orinvisibilized. She remembers when K-12 educators criminalized and minimized her experiences. She recalls messages that echo incompetence, disbelonging, and exclusion, all of which birthed imposter syndrome in her womanhood.  \nFrom grade school to graduate school, we were expected to divorce mindbodyspirit (Moraga & Anzaldúa, 2015; Cariaga, 2018; Lara, 2002) in exchange for our subjectivity to prove us worthy of taking up space. Each time our bodies enter academic space, we are still read as out of place (McKittrick, 2006) and deserving of discipline or disposal.2 As we strive towards spiritually reviving models within academia, we use Critical Sisterhood Praxis (CSP) to refuse institutional demands to show up as fragmented, dismembered, and disembodied (Anzaldúa, 1999) .  \nWe offer CSP as both an intervention and protection, meeting atthe intersection of collective mirroring, radical healing, and spiritual restoration, to decenter whiteness and re-center Black and Brown girl joy through a shared struggle toward wholeness. While acknowledging the weaponization of whiteness and patriarchy that is often centralized in analysis of WOC academic experience (Buenavista et al., forthcoming), more complicated relationships between WOC scholars who perpetuate harm o","cbCaihSa2UmGOsyp","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihSa2UmGOsyp","pdf",200619,17,"English","# Abstract\n# Spirit Murdering and Slow Death: An Introduction\n# Literature Review","[{\"question\":\"What does the article mean by “spirit murdering” and how does it connect to “slow death”?\",\"answer\":\"It describes spirit murdering as an ongoing process that disconnects academic life from the inner child and triggers remembered harm, framed as “slow death.” The authors connect this to ongoing disconnection and injury experienced across schooling and academia.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Critical Sisterhood Praxis (CSP) function in the article?\",\"answer\":\"CSP is offered as both an intervention and protection. 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