Title: Latinx Is A Term Many Still Can't Embrace : NPR
Headings: Latinx Is A Term Many Still Can't Embrace
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Latinx Is A Term Many Still Can't Embrace
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Content: He identifies himself as cis-gendered, heterosexual. Vazquez says that as Hispanics increasingly identified as Latino in the '80s and '90s, some Chicano and Latina feminists felt uncomfortable with the masculine term. The idea to find a more gender-neutral term took shape, he says. Latinx was asserted mostly by people who are gender nonconforming, says Vazquez, but today "most people who use the term are open about gender non-conformity, they look for opportunities to be politically progressive and they look for opportunities to be inclusive." He sees the value of using Latinx in political coalition building, but also in signaling solidarity with historically oppressed groups. One problem holding back the use of Latinx, he says, is "certain parochialism around the policing of Spanish." Some argue that Latinx is not Spanish enough, but Vazquez says they need to remember that "Spanish...is the original language of colonization." Code Switch
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Ilan Stavans teaches Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst in Massachusetts. " Eliminating centuries of a structural approach to language seems to me quixotic," he says. Stavans identifies himself as Jewish Mexican American heterosexual and says he supports political changes connected to gender and sexuality, but he cringes at Latinx. "