  The arguments in regard to discursive migration, translation, and translocas further capture the links among Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States as part of an intertwined diaspora (Alvarez 2014: 7). The intertwining is one that stretches in many hemispheric directions and as a result, makes Latin/a America a heterogeneous epistemic horizon. From Latinas in the United States to Afro-Latinas in Latin America, the ideas produced at the borders and nexus between, in, and through hemispheres are best understood by appreciating practices of translation. Hence, to think through Latin/a America as an epistemic locale, in its multidimensionality, requires a politics of translation that can foster coalition-building across hemispheres in spite of alterity. If taken seriously, feminist theories of translation demonstrate that ideas are products of hemispheric locations, incommensurable with their predecessors (local or imported). The discourses produced in Latin America and the Caribbean are not only alternative reconfigurations of ideas, but also ruptures in political epistemic practices. They call into question the notion that knowledge production is a naturalized feature of particular places (Femenías 2007: 14). Thus, the traffic of ideas generates new and diverse spaces from which to think about locations of difference (Femenías 2007: 15).