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Tag: latine tag
[image description: over a soft blue background, “LGBT & Latinx & Loud” is centered and towards the top. It is in black font, with the words “Friday, July 1st” underneath it. That is in a smaller, white font.]
LGBT & Latinx & Loud
What is it? It’s an event to celebrate people that are latinx and LGBT! Our latinx communities and our LGBT communities intersect, and we want to support both! A night that was supposed to celebrate our shared communities was brutally taken from us, and lives belonging to them were ripped away. But we are here. We love each other. We are latinx, we are LGBT, and we will be louder than those trying to erase us.
Can I participate? As this is to celebrate latinx LGBT people, you must be both. Are you? Then yes, you can participate, and we will be so appreciative of your participation! A few questions have been asked, for example a white-passing latinx asked if they could participate. Yes, they can! Are you a white-passing latinx LGBT person? Then you’re a latinx LGBT person, and we want to support you!! You are welcome to participate. Are you a mixed latinx LGBT person? Then you’re a latinx LGBT person! We want you to participate! The latinx people involved must also identify as LGBT. That means latinxs that experience any kind of SGA, our mlm and wlm, latinx trans people, and nonbinary latinxs! If there are any questions on whether or not you can participate, just send me, @alexandrareadsthings, a message!
What do we do to participate? Post selfies! Celebrate your beauty! Don’t feel comfortable taking pictures but still want to participate? That’s ok! You can celebrate yourself by writing a couple of quick sentences about what being LGBT and latinx means to you, even if it’s as simple as “I’m Lauren, I’m a lesbian, and I’m Colombian!” Since we’re trying to celebrate and support each other, we’ll need to tag our posts with “lgbt&latinx&loud”.
When do we post our stuff? Friday, July 1! At the time of this post, that is two weeks and one day away. While June is pride month, it’s a little tough to squeeze the event in while giving people time to see it since it’s mid June now.
What if I’m LGBT and latinx, but this is too much for me? That’s ok! This is about love and support. You are loved whether or not you participate!
I’m latinx, but not LGBT. I’m LGBT, but not latinx. I’m not latinx or LGBT. What can we do to help? We need you to help us be seen! Reblog our posts! Let us be seen and recognized and supported! Do not let us be erased. Do not tag a post you make with “lgbt&latinx&loud”. Lift us up! This is about us, and we need you to support us by letting it be about us.
The biggest thing anyone can do to help is to spread this post around! We want as many LGBT latinx people to see this as possible so that they know they are supported, and they get the opportunity to support their siblings!
If anyone has any questions about any of this, please message me! I will be happy to help!
Rest assured that I will reblog and post all lgbt&latinx&loud post and selfies on latinxpositivity. This is a beautiful idea!!
I will even take submissions of pictures/art/posts for this event if you don’t want to post it on your blog but still want to participate. PLEASE PARTICIPATE.WE ARE STRONG. WE ARE LOVED. WE ARE LOUD. SHOW THAT TO THE WORLD AND LET THEM KNOW WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED.
Losing so many Latinos fucking hurts.
We have such a hard time coming out, we have such little visibility, such few spaces where we can come together and celebrate being both Latino and LGBT, and I think about how excited these Latinos must have been to attend this event, something that was actually about THEM, until their excitement turned to terror. It’s just so fucking unfair.
Then to top it all off, even in death their identity is being erased and glossed over. I feel like not constantly recognizing the race/ethnicity of these victims is so disrespectful to their memory considering the last thing these people did was to celebrate being Latino before they died. So, please, always remember them for who they were and for all the intersections of their identities that made them so uniquely beautiful.
support lgbt+ latinx/black people all the time not just when a tragedy happens perhaps
what does “pinche gringo” mean?
it means “i love americans” in spanish
this disturbing trend of calling biracial people ‘white’ when they’re light sinned really needs to fucking stop.
Stop saying shit like ‘well they’re so white so they might as well be white’
or
‘yeah but they’re only half poc’
biracial people are POC there is no two ways about that.
and y’all wonder why biracial people end up making their own little communities for other biracial people or they end up hating themselves because they’re told they aren’t poc enough.
Stop pretending that black/white biracial folks are the only ones out there. Stop ignoring the afro-latinxs, the ones who have both asian and white ancestry, the ones who are part middle eastern and white, the ones who are both middle eastern and asian. Any combo you can think of they fucking exist.
And stop acting like biracial kids have to be a perfect mixture of their parents. That isn’t how genetics fucking works. Some of us are a deep olive, others are just as black as their black parent, and others are nearly as white as a wedding dress which doesn’t make them white simply white passing.
Stop making biracial kids hate themselves, hate their skin, hate their hair, hate everything about themselves. Stop telling them which side of themselves they should take pride in. Stop telling them how to identify. Stop telling those who are partially white that they shouldn’t shittalk white people, when 99% of the time the white part of their family hates them. They have every right to shittalk white people.
Peru: In Defense of Land, Culture and the Female Body – Interview with Lourdes Huanca
Lourdes Huanca Atencio is president of the National Federation of female peasants, Artisans, Indigenous, Natives and Salaried workers of Peru or FENMUCARINAP. The organization was founded in 2006 with the purpose of defending and fighting for the rights of women in Peru. These include struggles for the control and defense of the female body and political, economic and social empowerment. Rooted in an ancestral cosmovision of their indigenous communities, a central struggle has been the fight for their subsistence, in maintaining land, water and seed sovereignty. FENMUCARINAP currently finds itself in 19 regions throughout Peru and counts on over 126,000 members.
Peru: In Defense of Land, Culture and the Female Body – Interview with Lourdes Huanca
Yoina, a 9 year old girl of the Machiguenga community from the Peruvian Amazon, with her pet Saddle-back Tamarin
On today’s lesson we’re going to go over the differences between Nationality, Ethnicity, and Race!
Yay!
Nationality (noun) is the relationship between a person and the political state to which they belong to or is affiliated.
Ergo. That’s why sometimes people may have two citizenships. Or identify as being from two different countries due to their life experiences.
Example. Christina was born in Cuba she identifies as Cuban and loves the traditions and customs of her country such as salsa dancing. Christina moved to Florida when she was 12 and she also identifies as American and is thankful for all the experiences this country has given her.
Ethnicity (noun) is the identification of a person with a particular cultural, or religious group.
Example. Christina identifies as a Latina since she was born and grew up in a Latinx country.
Race (noun) each of the major divisions of humankind, having distinct physical characteristics.
Ergo. White. Indigenous. Asian. Black. Biracial.
Example. Christina despite being a Latina is also White, this is because Ethnicity and Race aren’t the same thing.
Bob Morley’s nationality is Australian. His ethnicity Filipino. His race Biracial: White and Asian.
Class dismissed.
lavenduers 