{"id":47697,"date":"2016-06-17T01:07:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T01:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47697"},"modified":"2016-06-17T01:07:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T01:07:13","slug":"what-does-latinx-mean-a-look-at-the-term-thats-challenging-gender-norms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47697","title":{"rendered":"What does \u2018Latinx\u2019 mean? A look at the term that&#8217;s challenging gender norms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/life\/2016\/04\/latinx\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>What does \u2018Latinx\u2019 mean? A look at the term that&#8217;s challenging gender norms<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Complex<\/a><br \/>\n2016-04-18<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yesipadilla\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Yesenia Padilla<\/strong><\/a>, Xicanx Poet<br \/>\n<em>Southern California<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/life\/2016\/04\/latinx\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.complex.com\/complex\/image\/upload\/c_limit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_680\/NTRSCTN_lead_LATINX_uehhbx.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been online at all in the past year, you\u2019ve probably seen the word &#8220;Latinx&#8221; and thought: What does it mean?<\/p>\n<p>Latinx (pronounced \u201cLa-TEEN-ex\u201d) is a gender-inclusive way of referring to people of Latin American descent. Used by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latinorebels.com\/2015\/12\/05\/the-case-for-latinx-why-intersectionality-is-not-a-choice\/\" target=\"_blank\">activists and some academics<\/a>, the term is gaining traction among the general public, after having been featured in publications such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/01\/29\/464886588\/latinx-the-ungendering-of-the-spanish-language\" target=\"_blank\"><em>NPR<\/em><\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latina.com\/lifestyle\/our-issues\/why-we-say-latinx-trans-gender-non-conforming-people-explain\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Latina<\/em><\/a>. But where did Latinx originate, and is everybody on board with using it?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/life\/2016\/04\/latinx\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does \u2018Latinx\u2019 mean? A look at the term that&#8217;s challenging gender norms Complex 2016-04-18 Yesenia Padilla, Xicanx Poet Southern California If you\u2019ve been online at all in the past year, you\u2019ve probably seen the word &#8220;Latinx&#8221; and thought: What does it mean? Latinx (pronounced \u201cLa-TEEN-ex\u201d) is a gender-inclusive way of referring to people of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14646,8],"tags":[24145,24146],"class_list":["post-47697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latino","category-media-archive","tag-complex","tag-yesenia-padilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47698,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47697\/revisions\/47698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}