Rosario Ferré’s position in one of Puerto Rico’s most important families and her status as one of the island’s most prolific and most vocally feminist authors render iconic her critiques of Puerto Rican “free association.” But as they struggle to disengage the binary structures of postcolonial patriarchy that constrain them, the women of Eccentric Neighborhoods walk in on possibilities rarely admitted in Ferré’s extensive body of work: English, statehood, and desire between women. The appeal of the titular eccentricity of places and people in Eccentric Neighborhoods is a new order of decentralized parity and plurality, a Caribbean feminist democratic ideal. In Eccentric Neighborhoods, statehood promises productive egalitarianism where domestic partnerships mirror public enterprises that escape the decadence of the plantation elite, whose dreams of independence have devolved into nostalgia for patriarchal power. Statehood should realize a hybrid space where center and ec-center, English and Spanish, old wealth and new enterprise, men and women, coexist in differentiated complementarity. Eccentric women in eccentric neighborhoods can escape colonial patriarchy, but what if they step into the disorder of radical antiheteronormativity where the attraction of parity devolves into that of similarity and down a slippery slope to indistinguishability?