  Placing translation at the center of feminist practices recognizes that translation is both politically and theoretically indispensable for feminist, anti-racist, decolonial, and anti-imperial alliances (Alvarez 2014: 1). Translation is framed as a translocal phenomenon insofar as it does not involve a fixed location, but further links geographies of power (e.g., national, local) with subject positions (e.g., gender/sexual, ethnoracial) (Alvarez 2014: 2). In this conceptual space, Latin America and the Caribbean are configured with a heterogeneity of Latinidades within the United States and within Latin America and the Caribbean that exist and move across multiple border spaces (Alvarez 2014: 2). Identities are formed in the nexus between borders, the spaces of intense confluence that characterize transmigrations across the region.