This article is a personal reflection on borderlands as a professional home. Researchers who find themselves beyond their home discipline, i.e., the one in which they have been credentialed, have tried to assign terms for their location and its psychological ramifications. Defying an intellectual lane is to traverse a boundary that is constricted by a paradigm and a way of looking at and framing research problems. There is a rich body of the literature that explores scientific specialization, problem choice, and the meaning of community in research. Indeed, science consists of mainland where we must spend most of our professional time preserving our existence and building our careers. Borderlands are communities, typically marginalized, where researchers can collectively rethink, challenge, bond, and concoct something not possible before.