6:51am
May 10, 2015
Daily Reminders
Latina here, Latino is male and neutral, that is how the language works.
Nonbinary Latinx here. “Latino” is purely male-coded and it erases the identity of nonbinary & trans Latinxs/Latines. It is not inclusive. Using male as the default is outdated. The language is evolving to include gender neutral variants. Please understand this, and do not erase us or speak over us.
teacher of Spanish (& French) grammar here. the evolution of languages is fascinating and important. it’s one of the ways a living language differs from a dead one.
i’m excited to be able to tell my students, some of whom are Latinxs and some of whom are nonbinary (and my husband, who is South American but doesn’t follow this particular topic closely) about the gendering evolution underway in the languages i teach and the complex decisions currently being hammered-out **by native speakers**.
it’s amazing that we can observe languages evolving (in both trivial and essential ways) right under our noses *while teaching/learning the basics of the language*. when we come across outdated things in the books, we can explain that “IRL this is changing”… just like i would with technology words or jobs or other areas that have evolved lately.
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