Putting it Together

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My hikes this past year living in Colorado

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thomasjcallahan:

It feels like you are sort of slipping away, 2014

Embroidery

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this is on a level that i cannot reach

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this is teen nick sitcom level

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Im crushed because I feel like we’ll never know if it worked or not.

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this is so wild…

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A dream deferred

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Altered Books & Illustrations by Isobelle Ouzman.

Artists on tumblr

Etsy Shop

Lustik:  twitter | pinterest | etsy

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As a 4 year old, this was the funniest thing I’d ever seen. I think I talked about it for days.

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This is still funny to me.

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You know honestly this guy should have known what was going to happen.

He goes to this restaurant every day and something weird happens, he needs to get with it and start ordering three of the small hamburger.  Come on, guy.

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So Grover invented sliders, is what I’m getting from this.

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#this is it this is american television

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that all happened in under 2 minutes

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this is honestly a spiritual experience

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ESHANNIE LOVE FEST ALL COUPLES WHO THINK THEY’RE CUTE STEP ASIDE

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Prague’s famous astronomical clock! It tells the position of the moon, sun, and the time.

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Victorian Houses

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dreams

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Daily Reminders

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Latina here, Latino is male and neutral, that is how the language works. 

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Nonbinary Latinx here. “Latino” is purely male-coded and it erases the identity of nonbinary & trans Latinxs/Latines. It is not inclusive. Using male as the default is outdated. The language is evolving to include gender neutral variants. Please understand this, and do not erase us or speak over us. 

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Sorry non-Latin American here, I’ve heard of Latinx being used for enbies but haven’t seen Latine before. Does it mean the same thing or is it slightly different? I just want to know the best way to describe my fellow enbies. 

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There are actually more than these two ways to refer to non-binary people or to talk in a gender-neutral way in Spanish. For a quick explanation, let me tell you about Spanish gendering (Portuguese is very similar, but I don’t speak it near fluently enough to explain it): 

Most gendered words in Spanish are finished with “o” for male and “a” for female (cute boy would be “chico bonito”, cute girl would be “chica bonita”). 

Words finishing in “-ente” are supposed to be gender neutral, and adjectives with this termination are (”presente”, “decente”); but in a lot of places, the nouns finished in “-ente” are read as male, and have to be turned into “-enta” to become female (like “la presidente” and “el presidente”, which has turned into “la presidenta” and “el presidente”).

Words finished in “-or” are masculine, and you have to add the “a” to make them feminine (works for both nouns and adjectives, like “contador/contadora” or “admirador/admiradora).

There are some words that finish in “a” and are gender neutral, and are gendered by the pronouns you add (“el/la ciclista”, ”el/la periodista”).

Because of the many variations that occur in Spanish gendering, “x” sticks out as an obvious, impossible to confuse alternative. The issue is that “x” is not a common sound in Spanish or Portuguese. So, while pronouncing “latinx” or “chicx” or “bonitx” might come naturally for an US-raised latinx or even for Puerto-Riqueñxs and Mexicanxs (due to the heavy use of English/Spanglish there, and the fact that a lot of their native tongues use this sound), saying “chikex” or “bonitex” or “latinex” isn’t such a natural alternative for a lot of latinxs. It works great in the written form, but when translated to daily speech, Spanish-only speakers might find it foreign and even hard to pronounce. 

To make it more approachable, you can pick how to pronounce it: You can use “Latin-ex” (/ lɑˈtineks /), or “Lah-ti-ness” (/ lɑˈtines /) , or keep the ‘x’ silent (/ lɑˈtin /) . Depends on which is easier to pronounce for you. - latinxnbinary

This system swaps all “a”, “o”, and “e” for “x”, or adds an “x” or adds an “x” when the consonant ending is read as male:

“bonita”/”bonito” become “bonitx”

“presidente” becomes “presidentx”

“contador”/”contadora” become “contadorx”

And the articles would look like this: 

“un”/”una” would be “unx”

“unos”/”unas” would be “unxs”

“él”/ella” could be “elx” or “ellx”

“el”/la” could be “elx” or “lx”

“los”/”las” would be “lxs”

Since it’s already an existent gender-neutral form in Spanish, the “e” termination is the next logical solution. It’s pretty popular in Spain, and slowly spreading through some Sudamerican queer circles. It actually works really well. 

The rule is: 

In “a”/”o” words, swap these for “e”. (“bonito”, “bonita”, “bonite”)

In “-or”/”-ora” words, use “-ore”. (”encantador”, “encantadora”, “encantadore”)

In “e” words, just leave it. They’re meant to be neutral anyways.

The articles would look like this: 

“un”/”una” would be “une”

“unos”/”unas” would be “unes”

“él”/ella” could be “ele” or “elle”

“el”/la” could be “ele” or “le”

“los”/”las” would be “les”

But these are not the only options. You have the “i”, the “u”, the “ao” and the “oa” alternatives(*), all of them as valid as “e”. The “e” might be more popular because it’s a sound that comes more naturally (“u” is the less used vowel in Spanish, and the “ao”/”oa” might come easier to Portuguese speakers because their language has more diphthongs than ours), but these options work in just the same way the “x” termination does. 

(*) if you see something like “bonit@”, that could be read as “bonitoa” or “bonitao”. The “@” ending is another popular alternative, though it can be regarded as too informal or only appropriate for the written language. This was the first gender-neutral ending in Spanish, but many people criticize it (and the “ao”/”oa”) on the basis that in reinforces the a/o binary instead of stepping outside of it. (I think the people at thisisnotlatinx have made a few posts on the matter).

Just like English speakers might reinforce/express their gender identity choosing pronouns other than “they” (like “ne/nes”, “xe/xeir”, etc.), the way Spanish/Portuguese speakers choose to alter the traditional gendering of their native language might be tied to their gender expression, so it’d be cool of you to ask how they prefer to be referred to in Spanish or Portuguese. 

Though “x” and “e” are generally perceived as the “go-to” gender-neutral terminations in Spanish or Portuguese, just like “they/them” is the go-to gender-neutral pronoun in English, all the other forms are as valid and they could easily coexist without detriment to the language.

wardenmorgankagedofthewall; after a few edits, I think this as comprehensive and complete as I can make my explanation. I hope you find it useful!

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Cool

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