For those of us who don't speak Spanish: our language is gendered. I won't get into why—but it's a solid feature that can be difficult to explain to English-only speakers.
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I never perceived Latinx as a threat, the way I think many Latino men do. I get it, in some ways. Latino men are hated in society in so many ways. So you gotta hang on to what you got.
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Nor did I ever presume Latinx to be some kind of imperialistic neologism that we're imposing on older, poorer, and less educated people.
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Again: the person who explained amigxs to me what seems like forever ago was my elder. Poor in a way most of you will never understand poverty, and less educated as in never finished grade school. They got it. They taught me.
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Plus, this is a Guarani elder we're talking about. They reminded me that Spanish is an imperialist language; that we should challenge our allegiance to its purity.
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More than anything else, I'd like those of you who don't speak Spanish and are not Latinx to know that many of us do use the word. We're still working some of this out among ourselves, but in the meantime, we welcome you using the word.
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I read (much of) this, and I am very very proud of you for taking the time to explain this to me. Thank you.
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Nice primer. Some Q's: If ur friends are all female, do u still refer to yourselves as amigxs, would you go with amigas as a term of empowerment, or would it depend on context? It seems the term "Latinas" can be either exclusionary (of trans) or empowering?
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