{"id":1380,"date":"2018-11-16T14:29:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T21:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2018-11-16T14:29:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T21:29:21","slug":"a-case-for-latinx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/16\/a-case-for-latinx\/","title":{"rendered":"A Case for Latinx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coined in the early aughts, the term Latinx has slowly gained traction in academe and social media.  Spanish is a gendered language, nouns are either female or male &#8211; they are binary and immediately evoke a binary gendered meaning and identity and value &#8211; female or male.  To those who identify outside of the female and male binary, a transformation of language must occur.<\/p>\n<p>Language is a living thing.  Languages change over time; new words are established, pronunciations change, languages die and new languages are established; language evolves.  In Judeo-Christian religions as well as other religions, language is the root of knowledge and language is power.  In our culture, those who dominate a language may more easily cross class and racial boundaries.  Language continues to present power.<\/p>\n<p>As language is knowledge and power and language is a living thing, it can be transformed.  Language is a culturally transformative vehicle.  Language has the power to alter understanding and may present a means to inclusiveness.  Perhaps next year the Latinx Grammys will embrace this transformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coined in the early aughts, the term Latinx has slowly gained traction in academe and social media. Spanish is a gendered language, nouns are either female or male &#8211; they are binary and immediately evoke a binary gendered meaning and identity and value &#8211; female or male. To those who identify outside of the female [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1123,1121,1122,1120],"class_list":["post-1380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critical_perspectives","tag-latin-grammys","tag-latinx","tag-latinx-grammys","tag-power-of-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}