it’s saturday and i’m here to remind y’all that calling latinxs “hispanics” is
1) prioritizing a label created by gringxs instead of the identity that latinxs built for ourselves.2) conflating us with the spanish, who are colonizers.
3)erasing non-spanish speaking latinxs –both those who don’t speak spanish due to assimilation and those who aren’t even linked to it, like, for example, all of brasil/brazil.
lavenduers 