Ok so this discussion tends to come up a lot and people think that because latinx isn't really pronouncable easily in Spanish that must mean it's put in by white libs, but there's a number of different origin theories behind this. I'll share one that I think was pretty interesting.
Basically this theory goes that sometime during the 60's/70's, there were feminist protests in parts of Puerto Rico where some of the graffiti was the word Latino but with an X over the O to cross it out and protest against the "male default" and then that somehow got adapted into the word Latinx later on.
This also matches up somewhat with another theory that shows one of its earliest usages was in Puerto Rican academic literature.
Regardless of which theories are correct, it does seem likely this arose from Spanish speaking Puerto Rican feminists in Academia and became what it is today as a form of US Spanglish due to Puerto Rico being part of the US.
Ok so this discussion tends to come up a lot and people think that because latinx isn't really pronouncable easily in Spanish that must mean it's put in by white libs, but there's a number of different origin theories behind this. I'll share one that I think was pretty interesting.
Basically this theory goes that sometime during the 60's/70's, there were feminist protests in parts of Puerto Rico where some of the graffiti was the word Latino but with an X over the O to cross it out and protest against the "male default" and then that somehow got adapted into the word Latinx later on.
This also matches up somewhat with another theory that shows one of its earliest usages was in Puerto Rican academic literature.
Regardless of which theories are correct, it does seem likely this arose from Spanish speaking Puerto Rican feminists in Academia and became what it is today as a form of US Spanglish due to Puerto Rico being part of the US.