In this guest speaker review, Jinelly Romero-Cabrera reflects on Roque Raquel Salas-Rivera’s “Como Anguila: Eel Translations and the Colonial Embodiments of Language,” presented as part of the Francisco Scarano Series at the Puerto Rican Studies Hub. The review explores linguistic refusal, language policing, and the decolonial possibilities of translation in challenging colonial power and dominant understandings of language.