Pop Culture
Terminology
Traditions Challenging the Binary
In the Academy
Ball Culture
100

An asexual gender fluid astrologist with mucho mucho amor!

Who is Walter Mercado?

100

A word that was created to make gender neutral people of latin american descent feel more included in their ethnicity

What is Latinx/e?

100

An athletic competition from Mexico that honors female revolutionaries who broke the binary by leading the war effort and showing equestrian excellence

What is Escaramuza?

100

A discipline that has varied definitions of Latine populations

What is/are: public health, anthropology, epidemiology, medicine, sociology, language and culture studies, psychology, neuroscience

100

Ball culture originated in this city

What is New York City?

200

A pop singer who regularly challenges machismo and male gender stereotypes while bringing awareness to trans violence in Puerto Rico

Who is Bad Bunny?

200

Groups that tend not to use Latinx

Who are: Older Latino adults/those who speak only/predominantly Spanish?

200

The southern Mexican term for a person assigned male at birth but has feminine characteristics, belonging to a third gender.

What is Muxe?

200

A time when gender race and ethnicity stereotypes exist in the pursuit of a graduate degree

What is the modern age?

200

These POC demographics are the main participants in ball culture

Who are young black and latine individuals?

300

A 17th century poet, she became a nun because it was the only way to avoid a husband and devote her life to her education

Who is Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz?

300

A new term designed to be easier to say in Spanish and replace Latinx

What is Latine?
300

T/F: Within Latin American Indigenous societies, men and women both held equal roles within society

True

300

T/F: Latin Americans have worse cognition than people from the U.S.

False

300

Drag-based places for individuals of color to grow and learn about themselves when their families do not support them

What are houses?

400

A trans-feminine performer who sings about her journey through life and Mexican folklore in the third person

Who is La Bruja de Texcoco?

400

It is seen as ________ the term by placing an X at the end of the word

What is Whitewashing?

400

A group that held equal political positions, meaning that all Indigenous people (regardless of gender) could have run for office

Who are The Mexica/Quechua/Pueblo Indians?

400

An educational roadblock to children of immigrants

What is assimilation?
400

The first group to hold a ball for exclusively queens of color in 1962

What is the House of LaBeija?

500

A Brazilian drag queen that perfected Whitney Houston’s “I Have Nothing” and was nominated for a Grammy

Who is Pabllo Vittar?

500

A reason for the most recent change in gender-neutral Spanish terminology

What is ease of conjugation/Spanish pronunciation? 

500

After colonization, even elite Indigenous women were not allow to obtain this, unlike their male counterparts

What is education?

500

Two reasons for higher rates of parent-teacher disagreement in schools with large Latine populations

What are discrimination and lack of proper language exchange?

500

The ball group with the largest population of Latine performers.

What is the House of Xtravaganza?

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