Today’s discussion is with Marisa Fuentes, who teaches in the departments of History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and focus on histories of gender, slavery, the Caribbean and Black Atlantic worlds. Along with a number of scholarly articles and edited collections, she is the author of Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive, which won book prizes from the Association of Black Women Historians, The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, and The Barbara T. Christian Best Humanities Book Prize from the Caribbean Studies Association. In this conversation, we discuss how Black Studies informs critical historical research, the theoretical and ethical problem of reading for silences, and how practices of careful, archive-attuned fabulation have deep and abiding impact on Black Atlantic and Black women’s history.