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Early post-election polls raised concerns about a troubling trend: an increase in male Latino support for former President Donald Trump. While this statistical shift has garnered significant attention, it also raises important questions about how we understand Latinos as a categorization, and how we can avoid reducing a diverse group of over 60 million people to a set of broad, often misleading generalizations.

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Los Angeles-based filmmaker Alex Rivera spoke recently at American University in Washington, D.C., talking about the lack of diversity in science fiction and how artificial intelligence interprets diversity in illustrations. His focus, he said, has always been on the Latino community, or rather, he said wryly, “my community, formerly known as Latino.”