Editor’s Introduction

Introduction| September 01 2023 Editor’s Introduction: Fill Up Your Cup to Do the Work Kakali Bhattacharya Kakali Bhattacharya Kakali Bhattacharya is an award-winning professor at the University of Florida housed in the Research, Evaluation, and Measurement Program. Substantively, she explores transnational issues of race, class, and gender in higher education. Her work has made spaces in interdisciplinary de/colonizing work and qualitative research where creativity and contemplative approaches are legitimized and seen as gateways for cultivating depth, integrity, expansive inquiry, and discovering critical insights.She is the 2022 winner of the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) inaugural Guba Award for Outstanding Contributions to Qualitative Research from the Qualitative Research Special Interest Group (SIG). She is the 2018 winner of AERA’s Mid-Career Scholar of Color Award. Her co-authored text with Kent Gillen, Power, Race, and Higher Education: A Cross-Cultural Parallel Narrative, has won a 2017 Outstanding Publication Award from AERA (SIG 168) and a 2018 Outstanding Book Award from the International Congress of Qualitative Research. kakalibh@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar kakalibh@gmail.com Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2023) 12 (3): 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2023.12.3.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kakali Bhattacharya; Editor’s Introduction: Fill Up Your Cup to Do the Work. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 1 September 2023; 12 (3): 1–4. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2023.12.3.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentDepartures in Critical Qualitative Research Search 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... You do not currently have access to this content.