“…ancestry, identity, and ethnicity, together with my diasporic position, locate me in the in-between, the liminal, the borders, especially in academic spaces. I am an outsider-within as a person "caught between groups of unequal power" (Collins, 1999, p. 85), writing from the Nepantla (Anzaldúa, 1987(Anzaldúa, , 1993Scott & Tuana, 2017) as a border space in transformation, where writing is about being in your body, not your head. This shifting in-between spaces of intersected identities has led to constant reflections on how my power, privilege, politics, and access (3P-A) (Albarrán González, 2020a) Africa in his 30s with little knowledge of the complexities of the world he was entering.…”