Nathian Shae Rodriguez, associate professor and associate director in the School of Journalism and Media Studies at San Diego State University, discusses the recent Arkansas ban on the use of Latinx
There’s an air of insincerity around one of the early executive orders from new Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. On her first day in office, she issued an order banning the use of Latinx, a gender-neutral alternative to Latino or Latina meant to be inclusive of nonbinary, gender nonconforming, and transgender members of the community, in all official state documents.
To get to your specific question, I don’t think that the terms are interchangeable for some individuals. Identity is something that is not monolithic, and it’s something that is fluid. People kind of identify with different facets of their identity; it’s very intersectional. For individuals, especially those from Latin American heritage, their ethnicity, their race, their country of origin, or their parents or grandparents’ country of origin, might be something that is very salient to them.
I think it is important for individuals who are LGBTQ, individuals who are gender nonconforming and nonbinary, and trans individuals who hear this type of language, who hear pronouns being used, they feel included. We use it here at San Diego State University, so I think it’s important that that conversation happens, in some capacity.
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