Margot Lee Shetterly's non fiction work Hidden Figures chronicles the stories of Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughan, Black women mathematicians whose work was instrumental in NASA's early operations. Shetterly's research exemplifies the kind of care and dedication Black women and femmes have shown one another in celebrating our brilliance. The Hidden Figures syllabus intends to follow in this tradition, honoring the spirit of Elma Lewis, and uplifting the narratives of Black women and femmes who continuously defy constraints of gender binaries, class, ability among other things, not only in their ways
of being in the world, but also in their intellectual and artistic production.