El gringuito, Mr. Kate: transnational ethnographic fieldwork as a gender-nonconforming queer

Using ethnographic data from a study in Honduras, this article looks at how my research was shaped by shifting perspectives on my gender, especially from the perspectives of the participants within the unique context, Gender identity was not always a personal conception, as is common in contemporary U.S. queer culture; instead, gender was co-constructed and dependent on the language used (Spanish or English), whether I had my children with me in the field, and visible access to material resources (a motorcycle, for example). This article is significant to the fields of qualitative and educational research methods, queer and gender studies, and transnational feminism.