Jesse Fraga / Assistant News Director Machismo, police and gendered double standards may be threatening Miami’s nightlife for queer people. Felipe Wallis, 23, recently fell victim when he faced discrimination at a local nightclub. As a regular at Centro Wynwood nightclub, Wallis wore a sleeveless knitted collared shirt, heels, gold hoops, black leather pants and […]
Anjuli Castano/Staff Writer As a white-passing Latina, I am not a person of color. I should not accept the tokenism the U.S. places on my identity because, for all intents and purposes, I operate in a white body. I am less racially profiled by employers and educators, I am more likely to receive proper care […]
Gabriela Enamorado/Staff Writer Growing up Latina came with a lot of great things. Culture, strength, resilience. It’s who I am and I’m proud of it. When I was about 16 I discovered I’m also bisexual. This added a whole other complicated layer to my identity. Being queer and Latinx is hard. As a queer Guatemalan-American […]
Guido Gonzalez/Assistant Entertainment Director Strangely, though I had been born in Miami and lived among the palm trees in the sweltering heat all my life, I do not consider myself a Latino or Hispanic. I suppose some context would be in order. My parents are immigrants. My father hailed from some cozy coastal town in […]
Gabriela Enamorado/Staff Writer Filling out any paperwork can be confusing as a Latinx. You mark your ethnicity as “Hispanic/Latino” and then they ask you for your race. You think “wait, isn’t my race Hispanic?” This is a common misconception. The terms “Hispanic” and “Latinx” refer to an ethnicity, not a race. Once we recognize this, […]
Jesse Fraga/Staff Writer Following the violent death of the black transgender man Tony McDade in Tallahassee, Fla. on May 27, FIU faculty felt the urgency to hold a public discussion on the topic of hate crimes in the U.S. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a hate crime is defined as “a criminal offense […]
By: Victor Jorges / News Director A Series Of Events At FIU Wants Students To Understand What Latinx Is By: Victor Jorges / News Director FIU is the largest Hispanic serving four-year post-secondary institution in the country, however, there might be a disconnect with the Latinx culture and what it means to be a part […]
Ursula Muñoz Schaefer/ Staff Writer With 61-percent of FIU’s student body being hispanic, you need not to walk far along one of our majority-minority campuses to find Latinx students putting their heritage on full display. Whether it be the proud Puerto Rican who stereotypically wears his flag on every shirt or that Cuban girl who […]
Gabriella Blanco/ Staff Writer On March 4, Hollywood gathered for the 90th Academy Awards, praising films and their creators for their accomplishments last year. As some of the biggest awards of the night went to films about or by Latin Americans — Pixar’s “Coco” and “The Shape of Water.” But the highlight for me came […]
Gabriella Blanco/ Contributing Writer On Jan. 1, 2018, VH1 premiered their fourth installment of their “Love and Hip Hop” franchise and for South Floridians, this one is the most exciting since it was filmed right in our own backyard. “Love and Hip Hop: Miami” follows the same formula of other shows in the “Love” […]
Alhi Leconte/Staff Writer The word “Latinx” (pronounced “La-teen-ex”) is meant to increase gender inclusivity and help those who feel limited by the Spanish language gendering them. Its objective is to move the Latin American culture forward. Because the Spanish language is heavily gendered, using ”Latinx” is a way to reverse the forced gendered terms the […]
Daniela Perez/ Staff Writer The term “Latinx” has been introduced as the new gender neutral replacement for “Latino.” Although often misinterpreted as a typo or a made up word, it’s actually defined in the Oxford Dictionary as “a person of Latin American origin or descent (used as a gender-neutral or non-binary alternative to Latino or […]
