  The institutionalization of feminism came under scrutiny in the 2000s. Autonomous feminists argued that as feminist practices continued to normalize, they failed to account for the inequities among women. As the century came to a close, critiquing (marginal) voices emerged, arguing that liberal feminism tended to overlook difference, inequity, and exclusion amongst women located in vastly different social and cultural locations (Coba &amp; Herrera 2013: 18). The Eighth Encuentro (November 1999) held in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic, reflected the presence of these emerging voices as dominant feminisms’ “Others”: Indigenous women, Afro-descended women, and lesbians whose position relative to the Encuentros had been marginal. The claims of inclusivity and diversity of the Encuentros were brought under critical scrutiny as they argued that their identities had been obscured under liberal feminism, which took gender to be characteristic of a foundational unity for the encounters. These desencuentros (“disencounters”) formed the basis of new social and political critique that characterized the emerging voices.