After five years as founding editor-in-chief of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, I offer here my final editorial commentary. At this transitional moment, I think about where we are now at LALVC, where we have been, and what the future will bring. It is a moment of reflection for me, one of gratefulness to all who supported the journal’s creation, and excitement as the journal—and I—move into new phases. Early in my career, I was inspired by postcolonialism, devoted to breaking down nationalist borders in my scholarship and teaching as I incorporated the study of the Americas into mainstream accounts of European art. In the last five years my work has evolved to a decolonial approach. I continue to resist borders, bringing important theoretical perspectives from ethnic studies into my scholarship, both historical and contemporary. I am a border-crossing art historian, committed to resisting geographic, temporal, and disciplinary...

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