muxe
Americannoun
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muxes
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of muxe
From Zapotec, from Spanish mujer “woman”
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For the muxe, wearing female attire and makeup are both matters of aesthetic choice and a societal shout-out of pride.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
A traditional muxe role is to look after aging mothers and fathers as other siblings leave home.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
“We were persecuted,” said Edgar Cacique Ruiz, 55, a muxe who was a close associate of Cazorla.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
The origins of the term muxe remains somewhat opaque, but it is often thought to be linked to mujer, the Spanish word for “woman.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Elvis Guerra, 30, the queen in waiting, explains that the muxe stand in solidarity with burgeoning gender rights movements worldwide, pronouncing themselves trailblazers of cultural preservation and inclusion in a rural bastion of Catholicism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Many gay and trans people in Mexico City and elsewhere call themselves muxes — though community leaders here, concerned about cultural appropriation, say only Zapotec people from the isthmus can qualify.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
There, alongside a community of fellow muxes — people who are born male but who adopt roles and identities associated with women — she will vie to be crowned the queen of the ceremony.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
Born in the southern state of Oaxaca, Marven is of Mixtec origin and identifies with the neighboring Zapotec indigenous transgender tradition of muxes, who mix gay male and female characteristics.
From Reuters ● Apr. 13, 2021
Later, I would learn about muxes in Oaxaca.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2019
The film raises issues about how muxes are treated in Mexico, as well as the issues of shame, regret and legacy.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2017
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