The bill comes after Arkansas banned government officials from using Latinx on formal documents last month.
Reyes said his motivations might be different from Sanders’, but he believes her decision was the right one.
But Maia Gil’Adi, an assistant professor of “Latinx and Multiethnic Literature” at Boston University, said the word actually dates back to Latino and Latina youth and queer culture in the 1990s, with the “x” being a nod to many people’s indigenous roots.
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