{"id":39835,"date":"2016-06-21T14:21:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T18:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/writer-jack-quemi-explains-the-meaning-of-latinx\/"},"modified":"2016-06-21T14:21:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T18:21:11","slug":"writer-jack-quemi-explains-the-meaning-of-latinx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/writer-jack-quemi-explains-the-meaning-of-latinx\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer Jack Qu\u2019emi Explains the Meaning of \u2018Latinx\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Writer Jack Qu\u2019emi Explains the Meaning of \u2018Latinx\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/06\/latinx\/quemi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-318219\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/quemi.jpeg?resize=600%2C339\" alt=\"Jack Qu'emi latinx\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/quemi.jpeg?w=600 600w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/quemi.jpeg?resize=300%2C170 300w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.towleroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/quemi.jpeg?resize=150%2C84 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack Qu&rsquo;emi is a writer and self-described &ldquo;queer, non-binary femme,&rdquo; who among other terms identifies as Afro-Latinx.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s Latinx. Not Latino. Not Latina.<\/p>\n<p>The term (<em>pronounced: la-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">teen<\/a>-ex<\/em>)&nbsp;is gaining traction in Spanish-speaking communities. But many are still asking,&nbsp;&ldquo;What&rsquo;s the meaning of the &lsquo;x&rsquo;?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Qu&rsquo;emi explains: &ldquo;The x [in Latinx], is a way of rejecting the gendering of words to begin with, especially since Spanish is such a gendered language.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Like the use of <em>t<\/em><em>hey\/them\/their<\/em> pronouns in English (in place of the gendered pronouns <em>he\/him\/his<\/em> and&nbsp;<em>she\/her\/hers<\/em>), &ldquo;Latinx&rdquo; is an attempt in Spanish to include&nbsp;non-binary people, those who are neither <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a> nor <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">female<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Latinx<\/em> is practically the&nbsp;only explicitly ungendered&nbsp;term&nbsp;that has gained&nbsp;traction outside of academic circles. The conversation in much of South America is about including&nbsp;<em>both <\/em>genders (only <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a> and <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">female<\/a>), rather than&nbsp;<em>all&nbsp;<\/em>genders.<\/p>\n<p>On their social media profile, Qu&rsquo;emi&nbsp;reminds the casual follower to use&nbsp;gender-neutral pronouns and titles.<\/p>\n<p>English-speaking grammar purists might cry out, &ldquo;But&nbsp;<em>they<\/em>&nbsp;is plural! It cannot refer to just one person!&rdquo; However,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/they\" target=\"_blank\">Merriam-Webster<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americandialect.org\/2015-word-of-the-year-is-singular-they\" target=\"_blank\">American Dialect Society<\/a> have effectively ended any legitimate&nbsp;linguistic debate (although there are still doubters).<\/p>\n<p>In Spanish, the debate is far from over.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In Spanish, the masculinized version of words is considered as gender-neutral. I don&rsquo;t think its appropriate to assign masculinity as neutral when it isn&rsquo;t,&rdquo; Qu&rsquo;emi says.<\/p>\n<p>Gender-neutral adaptations&nbsp;of language like Latinx, and before it Latin@,&nbsp;are often criticized as being academic and removed from everyday&nbsp;speech.<\/p>\n<p>They can also take time for others to fully grasp. Qu&rsquo;emi&rsquo;s mother has had difficulty understanding their non-binary identity. Qu&rsquo;emi remembers an early conversation the two had about it:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So, are you a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">boy<\/a>?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Are you a <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">girl<\/a>?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;No.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Then what!?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Their mother&rsquo;s confusion is understandable, tied up in a life&rsquo;s worth of reinforced gender norms. However, she is&nbsp;making a real&nbsp;effort to embrace a new understanding of Qu&rsquo;emi&rsquo;s gender, using gender-neutral English terms such as &ldquo;my little one&rdquo; and &ldquo;my child.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Qu&rsquo;emi has <a href=\"http:\/\/rabbitglitter.tumblr.com\/business\" target=\"_blank\">spoken and written extensively<\/a> on the topic of gender outside the&nbsp;masculine\/feminine&nbsp;binary. Their collegues jokingly <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=grq0&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">call<\/a> them &ldquo;The Teacher&rdquo; (&ldquo;Maestra? No no no, Maestrx!&rdquo;). While Qu&rsquo;emi readily accepts this role,&nbsp;queer people are often forced into the role of educator for the straight world. But there are plenty of resources out there for people to educate themselves &mdash; the internet is&nbsp;full of well-written articles and interviews with queer people that&nbsp;explore the&nbsp;complexity of gender outside&nbsp;the binary.<\/p>\n<p>Latinx is one attempt among many to break down the masculine\/feminine binary in the Spanish language.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jackquemi\" target=\"_blank\">Qu&rsquo;emi<\/a> says it&rsquo;s just the beginning of the&nbsp;linguistic revolution. &ldquo;After all,&rdquo; they say,&nbsp;&ldquo;that&rsquo;s just <em>one<\/em> word!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>Artemis Octavio contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2016-06-21\/writer-jack-quemi-explains-meaning-latinx\" target=\"_blank\">This article first appeared on PRI&rsquo;s The World<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/2016\/06\/latinx\/\">Writer Jack Qu&rsquo;emi Explains the Meaning of &lsquo;Latinx&rsquo;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.towleroad.com\/\">Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=YNSl8U_eIiU:a2TISd3aXe8:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=YNSl8U_eIiU:a2TISd3aXe8:I9og5sOYxJI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=I9og5sOYxJI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=YNSl8U_eIiU:a2TISd3aXe8:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=YNSl8U_eIiU:a2TISd3aXe8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?i=YNSl8U_eIiU:a2TISd3aXe8:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=YNSl8U_eIiU:a2TISd3aXe8:cGdyc7Q-1BI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=cGdyc7Q-1BI\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?a=YNSl8U_eIiU:a2TISd3aXe8:YwkR-u9nhCs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/towleroad\/feed?d=YwkR-u9nhCs\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~4\/YNSl8U_eIiU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/YNSl8U_eIiU\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\">feeds.towleroad.com\/~r\/towleroad\/feed\/~3\/YNSl8U_eIiU\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer Jack Qu\u2019emi Explains the Meaning of \u2018Latinx\u2019 Jack Qu&rsquo;emi is a writer and self-described &ldquo;queer, non-binary femme,&rdquo; who among other terms identifies as Afro-Latinx. That&rsquo;s Latinx. Not Latino. Not Latina. The term (pronounced: la-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/couples\/?mp_code=akftr\">teen<\/a>-ex)&nbsp;is gaining traction in Spanish-speaking communities. But many are still asking,&nbsp;&ldquo;What&rsquo;s the meaning of the &lsquo;x&rsquo;?&rdquo; Qu&rsquo;emi explains: &ldquo;The x [in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/writer-jack-quemi-explains-the-meaning-of-latinx\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writer Jack Qu\u2019emi Explains the Meaning of \u2018Latinx\u2019<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Writer Jack Qu\u2019emi Explains the Meaning of \u2018Latinx\u2019 - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/writer-jack-quemi-explains-the-meaning-of-latinx\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Writer Jack Qu\u2019emi Explains the Meaning of \u2018Latinx\u2019 - GAYFRIENDSCHAT.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Writer Jack Qu\u2019emi Explains the Meaning of \u2018Latinx\u2019 Jack Qu&rsquo;emi is a writer and self-described &ldquo;queer, non-binary femme,&rdquo; who among other terms identifies as Afro-Latinx. 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