Cristina S. Méndez reflects on a recent panel at the Latin American Studies Association Congress, where participants discussed the challenges faced by women doing field research in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Cristina S. Méndez reflects on Maylei Blackwell's work. In her recent book Scales of Resistance: Indigenous Women’s Transborder Activism, Blackwell looks at how Indigenous women’s activism in Mexico and its diaspora weaves in and between local, national, continental, and transborder scales.