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.
If the issue is that Latinx is an “imported” term then first recognize that the US has the second largest Latine population globally and it was created by that same community.
If the issue is that it’s difficult to say in Spanish then use Latine.
If the issue is that it’s difficult to say in Spanish then use Latine.
If the issue is that you don’t identify with Latine/x, then feel free to choose the term you best identify with because no one is forcing an identity on anyone. It’s about being the most inclusive and equity centered with our language when referring to the whole community.
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