In this chapter, we, two Black African Women (BAW), explore the impact and effects the intersection of our race and gender have on our experiences as academics in higher education in Ireland. Drawing from the ideas of Critical Race Theory and Black Feminist Thought, we use dialogue and storytelling to explore and highlight the challenges we encounter in navigating a career in higher education. Our dialogic, conversational and storytelling methods are not only empowering and culturally responsive but are steeped in criticality and reflexivity. We incorporate into our text, concepts, theories, and empirical evidence which triangulate our conversations. We speak explicitly about racism and inequality and how these directly impact how BAW are regarded and treated in higher education in Ireland. We also write about the damaging impact of everyday micro-aggressions, unconscious bias, and institutional racism intersecting with sexism. In this chapter, we also write about the issue of trauma endured by BAW and the impact of this on the mental well-being of BAW in academia with little or no culture-appropriate therapeutic support. We conclude our chapter by expressing some hope, by proffering workable solutions to the plight of BAW which include culturally appropriate counselling supports, targeted recruitment drives, and adequate resourcing to implement the Higher Education Authority (HEA) Race Equality principles.