Latinx

Fred-Rick
2 min readMar 3

Write it, don’t pronounce it!

Photo by Filip Gielda on Unsplash

When I lived in Mexico in the mid nineties, I loved seeing Latin@ used somewhere in writing. It told me Spanish is alive and well, and that folks were ready to have some fun with it. I don’t remember the exact sentence anymore, but it was something such as “What would your latin@ partner say about that?”

The way it is written allows the reader to either read it as latino or as latina, and…