This article seeks to convey some of the theoretical frameworks and commitments that characterize how anthropologists have approached the ethnography of resistance. Using our individual biographies as a point of departure, we describe and contrast the intellectual influences that shaped our ethnographic engagements as well as the unanticipated dilemmas we each faced with regard to writing, thick description, and accountability to research participants and their struggles. Our narratives reveal a continued interest in ethnographic thickness while at the same time pointing to new challenges that emerge from the growing interest in engaged or activist research paradigms. Our experiences show that studying actors engaged in political struggle calls for rethinking the pedagogy and practice of ethnography. We conclude by considering steps we can take within our institutions to support such reflexivity and engagement in ethnographic work.