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Instead, the authors put forth the concept of shadow work, which happens as a result of the failures of DEI work. Through a dialogue among the three authors, they parse where, how, and why shadow work happens to compose collective understandings of shadow work. Through collaborative storytelling, the authors invite readers to begin a practice of bearing witness to the structural work that must be done in the shadows, quietly and collaboratively, to remain on this “side”of the profession’s gated faculty community. The authors invite readers to engage in their own critiques of the academic assembly line reproducing dominant rhetorics of diversity.  \nPreface  \nShadow work emerges wherever there are haunting circumstances. It may seem odd, at first, to encounter these two concepts in the same breath. By shadows, we mean places wounded by and imagined as death-spaces and people relegated to or thrown into the shadow zones of non-being (see Fanon; Taussig) . Perhaps the greatest irony here in the union of these two words is that work occurs at all from the absences and silences produced in and by relations codified through power. Shadow work, as we conceive of it in this essay, is not about bootstrapping or making it on one’s own.“Rarely,” bell hooks claims,“are any of us healed in isolation”(215). Echoing hooks’s sentiment that healing is an act of communion, Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Mohanty remind us that when we work towards freeing ourselves from the spaces and places of domination, it’s always already done “within the context of a collective or communal process” (506) . In the face of haunting circumstances that force assent, shadow work is carried out for another person in the name of care, love, and healing without certainty or guarantee for what that work might yield. Shadow work is not carried out evenly across space and time, and this essay makes no attempt to try to smoothly weave our inherited, lived, and fragmented experiences together.  \nComposition Studies 49.2 (2021): 31–52  \nDear reader: we call on you to bear witness to this impossible condition. Shadow work is a symptom of a problem—it is not something to be mythologized. Therefore, in this essay, we are not advocating for the dedicated work of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) on behalf of the institution of higher education, which sometimes assumes that hiring BIPOC scholar-teachers will fix the problem DEI discourse was deployed to solve, for this myth imposes upon BIPOC scholar-teachers the responsibility to fix problems they did not create. It also places BIPOC scholar-teachers into situations where the likelihood of harm is high. For those reasons, we’d like to draw a distinction between the kind of DEI work that appears on brochures—the kind of DEI work that maintains the appearance of social justice without actually doing anything to uproot itself from its grounding in white supremacy—and a different kind of infra-DEI work that takes place in the shadows. We, the co-authors of this essay, attempt to outline the latter, and we ask our readers to think about shadow work as something that is neither scalable nor romanticized—as, dare we say, the care for the other “without the mandate for conquest”(Morrison) . Shadow work amounts to an act of care with no certainty of what it might yield, no promise that it will fix that which is broken, and no guarantee of how it will be valued for tenure and/or promotion. Shadow work happens despite DEI—not because of it—so to ask how shadow work could serve as a model for DEI is the wrong question to be asking. 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