What does it mean to lose parts of yourself simply as a way to preserve yourself? How does language limit the experience of time-travel that so many Black girls and women experience in modern America? How does one reconcile the idea that east coast Maryland and west coast Los Angeles are, in fact, the same place(s) (as is New York and New Orleans)? By using the brilliant work of sci-fi writer Octavia Butler, Dr. LaShay Harvey - Interim Associate Dean of Graduate Studies - will pack and unpack Black women's geographies under the theme of transformation.