Mexican X Part X: What the Hex a ‘Latinx’?
9 min readDec 24, 2018
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“Why do people keep writing ‘Latinx’? And yikes, how do you pronounce it?”
Alright, deep breath. Here comes the 10th and final edition of my Mexican X series for 2018. It’s a long one.
Let’s start with the land we all live on in the Western Hemisphere. There aren’t any perfect indigenous words to use. “Turtle Island” has been proposed as a term some members of First Nations in “North America” feel comfortable with for their continent, as it ties into their beliefs. But not all of them agree. As it’s a term from the Iroquois people…