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If your argument to not use Latine or Latinx is based on popularity or familiarity, you’re missing the point.
The point is to be intentional with our language to center racial and gender equity. 🧵
The point is to be intentional with our language to center racial and gender equity. 🧵
Centering racial equity:
By using Latino/a instead of Hispanic, we recognize our African and Indigenous roots as well as non-Spanish speaking countries (Brazil and Haiti) and those that continue to speak their pre-colonization, native languages.
By using Latino/a instead of Hispanic, we recognize our African and Indigenous roots as well as non-Spanish speaking countries (Brazil and Haiti) and those that continue to speak their pre-colonization, native languages.
Centering gender equity:
By using Latinx or Latine instead of Latino/a, we recognize non-binary folks (which have long existed in our communities, look up “muxe”) and transgender folks who center that identity.
By using Latinx or Latine instead of Latino/a, we recognize non-binary folks (which have long existed in our communities, look up “muxe”) and transgender folks who center that identity.
