Speaking over Latino voices is not the way to approach this debate. Silencing us is not the way to do it either, especially if you are open to "be educated" about it. Especially if you're going to spread lies about us.

Not including English works in a collection in no way is a form of oppression. I cannot believe I have to write this. And, in no way Latin Americans believe migrants do not share our culture. They know it, after all, since they lived here before migrating.

Treating us like "Spanish" is a colonizer language so why would it be tied to our culture when the Spanish we speak borrows terms from our ancestral languages, mirrors our beliefs, and our traditions. This happens with languages that are spoken in Latin America.

And it's CRAZY that people are using these very terrible and serious issues to protest a collection of works written in our mother tongues in an archive where 95% of the works are in English. What the fuck.

Every once in a while the local news talk about lives lost in the jungle. Since the current administration in the US started, not only did we have our people in shackles sent to our countries like fucking criminals, but we're seeing ADS from the US gov telling us to NOT GO THERE.

We have grandparents who are living abroad because of an economic crisis, we have uncles working their asses off to either send some money or take the kids with them, we even know people who have been detained or lost their lives crossing the Darién. Do you really think WE would be anti-migrants?

y bueno qué hacemos hablando en inglés nosotros ajdbsksj pero sí, yo no lo pude evitar y obvio me dejó una sensación terrible porque el timing fue MUY sospechoso y luego al mismo tiempo la week contestó esa straw y estalló todo

dare I say... one of the people who started this whole thing over here wasn't even latino and I am *not* talking about the people from PR...

"get deported" bro I'm not on American soil, do you think everyone who speaks your language is living in the US? gtfo

Latinos who are fluent in English can still participate, though. No one is excluding anyone from it, I think the collection rule is trying to promote people writing in languages besides English, which is the one most of us use so we can reach more people. A way to reclaim our own tongues.

I don't think a restriction on being part of the collection is limiting people from participating, I am a spanish speaker first, but I would love to read english fics for latinojayvikweek as well as many others! Please, don't feel discouraged from contributing to the week 🙏

Latinos who live outside the US are well aware of the situation happening over there, we have family and friends suffering the consequences, and our countries have received our migrants with open arms. Please, don't believe for a second we don't consider this a major problem for us all 🙏

Hi, I'm not one of the mods but the rules say people can participate with English works, that is 100% allowed. I don't think the restriction in the collection means anything else besides letting latinamericans write in their first language.

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