Meanings
plural brujxs
- A Latinx, especially a Hispanic magic user; a witch.
Some of the brujx in this collective discussed their work with me as part of an Afro- Latinx spiritual activist component of the larger global movement for Black lives. Equally compelling is that brujx are not only activating AfroLatinx and[…]
2021 August 10, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, Mérida M. Rúa, Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies: A Reader, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 5292 more examples
Some of the brujx claimed mishandling a spirit's tether would get you cursed. But Yadriel had never heard of anyone ever actually getting possessed, and he had no intention of disrespecting this tether. […] Before them stood the three brujx who had turned fifteen since the last Día de Muertos. […]
2020 September 1, Aiden Thomas, Cemetery Boys, Swoon Reads, →ISBN... brujx community. In relating how the brujx came to California, the narrator recounts that “when the first brujx immigrated to Los Angeles, they had only built a small church and graveyard. But as the community expanded, so did the cemetery,[…]" […] a brujx who was chided and made fun of by the nonbrujx children.
2025 February 17, Trevor Boffone, Cristina Herrera, Atravesados: Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN
Origin
A modification of brujo, bruja: The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered suffixes -a and -o.
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