When Andrés tried translating Colombian slang to his American boyfriend, he stumbled into a deeper question: what do these words really mean?
In this episode, Andrés traces the roots of everyday slang in Colombian Spanish used not only by the queer community, but by the public at large.
What he finds reveals more about his queerness and culture than he thought.
In this story, he brings us the painful, often overlooked history behind a few words that he has been using both in his home country and here in the U.S.
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This story was produced by Andrés Pacheco-Girón and edited by our managing editor Fernanda Echavarri. It was mixed by Gabriela Baez and JJ Querubin. Fact-checking by Tasha Sandoval.
Featured image by Jeffrey Hsueh.
You have a feature about what words are slurs and what are acceptable, but what the heck at the words? You keep bleeping them out or I think I heard them say the “p word”. What the heck does that mean? How can we make any sense of a discussion of what words are acceptable if we don’t know what the words are.
Me gustó mucho este reportaje , fue muy agradable de escuchar y muy informativo
Conecte mucho con los ejemplos