It is critical to remember that the victims of the Pulse shooting, the second largest mass shooting on U.S. soil, were Afro-Latinx, Latinx, and black. They were there for Latin night to dance “to music by Latinx for Latinx. It matters that this is what was targeted, just as it matters when it’s a Black church, or an engineering department that welcomes women,” Kat Tanaka Okopnik writes for The Establishment.

Intersectionality is sometimes misunderstood to mean “[white] LGBT and [white] disabled and black and Latinx and Muslim, standing together,” as if those categories neatly separated out, one per person. Intersectionality is about the way that being Latinx and queer is inseparable and intensifies the marginalization. And the way that these were not just gay deaths. These were people who were living without the shield of whiteness, in a heated political environment that talks about building a wall against Spanish-speaking people even as two of the people pursuing the presidential nomination were children of Spanish speakers.

Now go read Okopnik’s whole piece.

Ana Sofia Knauf reports on Neighborhoods for The Stranger. When she’s not commuting to work by bus, she’s worrying about Seattle’s rising rents, giving herself headaches thinking about race, or trying...