Imagining the Futures of Latinx Speculative Fictions

"To combat the speculative fictions Trump conjures into reality, we must look to more liberatory forms of speculative fiction, especially ones that imagine a future for Latinxs at a time when such futures seem to be foreclosed by the concentration camps proliferating within the borders of the United States. At the same time, we must interrogate how our speculative imaginaries are, at times, limited by the contradictions of latinidad. Latinidad presumably names a shared, collective identity based on Latin American origins that seem to supersede differences in race, religion, and class (among other identitarian categories). However, a number of scholars point to the incoherence of the term.3 Further, as Pose star Indya Moore points out, Latinx often signals whiteness without referencing Black and Indigenous Latinxs.4 These tensions form the basis for the limits of latinidad while also pointing towards what a more inclusive, liberatory latinidad can look like, one that not only includes, but also centers the experiences of Black and Indigenous Latinxs."