The term Latinx, pronounced Lah-TEEN-ex, gained traction in 2016 as a gender-neutral, non-binary alternative to Latino and/or Latina. A variant is Latin@. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Latinx”
Another possible word of the year candidate is it looks like Latin X.
It’s usually written and not said.
It’s the word Latin with an X, and it stands for Latino or Latina.
And it’s a way of avoiding the gendered adjective that might usually default to the male.
So you can say all the Latinx.
Actually, I would never say it.
You would write all the Latinx in my community came out to vote.
Yeah, people say it, Latinx.
No, they do say Latinx.
I’ve never heard it.
I’ve only seen it written.
Anyway, that’s cool because the X kind of serves as a wild card to stand in for these other letters, right?
And we’re seeing this X starting to be used more and more in a few other places, and I may share some of that in a future episode.
Cool.
