My Response to Ximena’s “Why Is “Latinx” Inclusive, Necessary and Unifying?” essay. By: Xavier Bonilla The central thesis in the discussion around whether to use “Latinx” or not appears to be inclusion. Ximena wrote an
During my last semester in college, back in Mexico City in 2015, my professor walked into the classroom and did a quick headcount. Then, he made an announcement –since there were over a dozen female
The shape of language is agnostic of allegiance. Culture appears to be the determinate trajectory for how language evolves with people through time. It is perpetually in flux, just as the humans who created it.
A significant chunk of the US population is struggling with anxiety, and rates are only trending up. Before COVID-19, anxiety was slowly rising, but rates quickly accelerated once the pandemic and associated prevention measures began.
About 15 years ago at a reunion in the Wyoming mountains, the elder generation started talking politics over dinner. Being a twenty-something scholar of Facebook and cable news, I tuned out the other noise and
A couple of weeks before Halloween, two climate change activists stormed into the London National Gallery with a purpose: to make a statement at the expense of Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” one of the Gallery’s
I’ve never believed that journalism was dead. Changing, transforming, and adapting but not dying. In fact, I have spent the last 15 years training young journalists to tell fair, accurate, and compelling stories that inform,
The word nuance is a French term derived from the word “nuer,” meaning shade or subtlety. I think this is so beautiful. A painter who can capture shade on the canvas has been blessed because
When the slap happened at The Oscars in March, I felt it was a culmination point in terms of comedy. I was navigating the dimensions: horrified by Will Smith’s actions, impressed by Chris Rock’s composure,
Published on July 26, 2020 In 1999, like most baby millennials, our parents dictated the family television. In my Midwestern home, I woke up to Katie Couric and Matt Lauer’s news reports on Today before
