Using autoethnography to critically analyze personal and cultural experiences, we use the notion of “home” metaphorically through (a) academia—of our traumatic experiences as African American and Latinx women seeking acceptance in academic institutions despite blatant inequities, discrimination, and racism; and (b) intergenerational family and ancestral narratives—of past/present experiences and stories of identities, homes, and borders. We craft transnational and intersectional autoethnographic narratives to illustrate how our perceptions of self as African American and Latinx American scholars have been shaped across research, politics, and digital spaces. We address perspectives of how our past and current institutional spaces created emotional and contested imbalances in our sense of self and in how we defend our work. In our representation of the quest for home with(in) academia, we employ the multimodal lenses of poetry, images, voices, and the theories of Gloria Anzaldúa and Audre Lorde to elicit how various expressions of storytelling extend our thinking about qualitative inquiry in today’s society in ways that help to challenge academic and institutional structures.

使用民族志学来批判地分析个人和文化经历，我们通过（a）学术界隐喻地使用“家”的概念，即我们的创伤经历，即尽管有明显的不平等，歧视和种族主义，非洲裔美国人和拉丁裔妇女仍在学术机构中寻求接受；（b）代际家庭和祖先的叙述-过去/现在的经历以及关于身份，住所和边界的故事。我们精心制作了跨国的和交叉的民族志叙事，以说明我们在研究，政治和数字空间中如何塑造自己作为非裔美国人和拉丁美洲裔学者的自我观念。我们以观点来看待我们过去和现在的制度空间如何在自我意识以及我们如何捍卫我们的工作中造成情感上和有争议的失衡。