This conversation is with Dr. Watufani M. Poe (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leading at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned his PhD in Africana Studies from Brown University in May of 2021, his master's in history and Africana Studies in 2018 from Brown, and his B.A. in Black Studies from Swarthmore College in 2013. Before joining the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, he served as a Center for Humanistic Inquiry Postdoctoral Fellow at Amherst College from 2021-2022, placed in the Department of Black Studies and the Program in Latinx and Latin American Studies. His manuscript project, "Resisting Fragmentation: The Embodied Politics of Black Queer Worldmaking" is an ethnohistoric analysis of Black LGBTQ+ social and political activism in Brazil and the United States to outline the ways Black LGBTQ people push for freedom across various social and political movement spaces.