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Micaela
@micapulina.bsky.social
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PRican living in GA. Bilingüe. I love books, and cats + dogs especially. And cheese! Life after #breastcancer & #mastectomy

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Text over colorful background: A heartfelt "fuck you" to everyone who told me I was overreacting in November 2016
August 25, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I also grow increasingly tired of & impatient with the argument that Latinx was a product of US lefty academic circles when there is plenty written about its emergence in Latin America! Including in the Politico piece that shared the survey results! It's all tied to conservatism in our communities.
Screenshot from Politico: use of the word Latinx. Hispanic voters have started shifting right for myriad reasons, he said, chiefly because of more aggressive engagement from Republicans who have “weaponized culture war issues at the margins with Hispanic voters.” But as some on the left began embracing the term Latinx in politics, it started to expose a fault line in the party between moderate traditionalists and the more activist progressive base. Those embracing Latinx have explained that the word — and the trend of making Spanish words gender-inclusive by ending them in an X — is not a product of the U.S. left or white elites, but instead, can be traced back to Latin America and Latinos. It’s also an alternative to Hispanic, a term also criticized for its ties to Spain Screenshot from Pew Research: [text box] In more than 15 years of polling by Pew Research Center, half of Americans who trace their roots to Spanish-speaking Latin America and Spain have consistently said they have no preference for either Hispanic or Latino as a term to describe the group. And when one term is chosen over another, the term Hispanic has been preferred to Latino. Importantly, the same surveys show, country of origin labels (such as Mexican or Cuban or Ecuadorian) are preferred to these pan-ethnic terms among the population they are meant to describe. [/box] Google searches for Latinx rising in U.S., but trail far behind Latina, Latino and Hispanic The relative popularity of Latinx in online searches in the U.S. has increased since 2016, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of Google Trends data. While its earliest Google searches extend back to the early 2000s, the highest monthly relative number of searches for Latinx occurred in June 2020, surpassing a previous peak in October 2019.
August 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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I'm excited that this thread gives me the opportunity to follow a prompt from yesterday to "post a tweet you still think about" with something I took as advice from you years ago!
Image of quote tweet, original from @susandamussen says, And this: sweet potatoes "prosper in inferior soils, tolerate drought, resist insect pests, and do well with very little attention." Reply from @tressiemcphd says, Be a sweet potato Dated 9/11/17, 12:54pm
August 13, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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I... still think about this ALL THE TIME! (wanna say it hit my radar on the other site back in 2020?)
Text written over an 80s neon graphic background: The Iranian Yogurt is not The Issue Here
August 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM