Using collaborative autoethnographic techniques, the authors explored the intersectionality of motherhood and academic career life during 2020, which was logistically and emotionally complex and deeply racialized. To engage in active reflexivity, the authors told their stories with the backdrop of their intersectional identities. Beginning with weekly solo journal entries, they sought to co-construct their experiences as wider commentary on several systemic challenges moms working as professors faced during a global health crisis and a racially inequitable country. Analyzed through a critical feminist theoretical lens, the data revealed stories and analyses of systemic injustices and pandemic pedagogy, unpacked using a combination of personal narratives, journal entries, and scholarly contexts, as each topic was experienced both similarly and differently by the authors. The authors found collaborative autoethnography a cathartic and therapeutic practice. One key takeaway was to elevate a humanizing pedagogy in each of their respective classrooms and spheres of influence.