Hi everyone, I'm Joanna.

And I'm Jenny.

And welcome to hyphenated, the podcast about living in the hyphen.

Um, so this week we wanted to talk about sort of identity, but with the guise of politics.

Because politics, my friends, is so like in bed with identity.

It's gross.

It's gross.

I mean, it's gross.

We shouldn't, we shouldn't say that about, you know, any, any person's sexual desires.

But politics and identity are in bed together, straight up.

They're in bed together.

So the first thing that Jenny and I sort of always talk about is the term Latino, the term Latin, the term Latin, the term Hispanic, the term Latinx, this sort of one

word identifier to describe all of the Latinos that live in the U.S. and which one is right and

which one is wrong. Yeah. Which is inherently like just the most complex conversation

you could have because this one word, you know, it incorporates all the different ethnicities.

It incorporates all the different races, religions, countries. I mean, you know, when I moved to

the states, I didn't consider myself Latin.

I consider myself a Venezuelan.

You consider yourself a Cuban-American.

Then it was, you know, I mean, I don't know what your relationship to the word Latino or Latin or Hispanic is.

But there's this predominant push to have one word to put us all in one bucket.

And to make everyone happy, which has been quite impossible.

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