A burgeoning body of evidence documents how Black women in higher education are disproportionately impacted by adverse outcomes pertaining to their physical, mental, and social wellbeing as compared to their white counterparts in academe. While some research has examined why Black women exit the academy, far less attention has been paid to why Black women remain in institutions that are increasingly marked by epistemic violence, gendered racism, and unequal access to promotion. Bridging womanist thought with the Public Health Critical Race (PHCR) praxis of critical storytelling, this study draws on survey data and semi-structured interviews with womanist scholars at various stages of their careers (i.e., students, junior scholars, and senior scholars) to demonstrate how a sense of calling in the lives of Black women may function as a mechanism of self-sacrifice even as it is reconfigured as a weaponized tool of anti-Black violence in academe.