Neoliberalism occupies the walls of academia, seeping into the pulse and pace of faculty work and engendering precarity into academic life and the promotion and tenure process, particularly for Women of Color (WoC) scholars. Building on research on early-career faculty and Faculty of Color and informed by the theoretical concept of liminality, we use scholarly personal narratives to document ways neoliberalism has shaped our experiences as pre-tenure WoC scholars at research-intensive universities. Ultimately, recognizing our and other pre-tenure faculty members' liminality within the loveless neoliberal academy, we offer possibilities for subversion and refusal toward forging a more equitable and just future.