I’m ‘Latinx’ But Wish I Wasn’t

I asked my friends and followers what they thought of the word — but had no idea how much dissent there would be

Omar L. Gallaga
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7 min readJan 24, 2020

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I’d been curious about it for some time. So one slow Friday afternoon, I posted the same question to Twitter and Facebook: “What do you think of the term ‘Latinx?’”

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Omar L. Gallaga
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