“…By centering the female experience in theory and research, BWT creates a context for understanding gendered, racial, and cultural experiences (Blackmon, 2008;Kolawole, 1997;Ross, 2015). The womanist worldview and its associated social movement is "rooted in the lived experience of survival, community building, intimacy with the natural environment, health, healing, and personal growth among everyday people from all walks of life, and articulated primarily but not exclusively by women of color from around the world, and now a gift to all humanity" (Maparyan, 2012, para.…”