For the first time ever, Vogue will feature an indigenous, gender-nonconforming person on its cover.
Vasquez is part of a community of people known as muxes . Vasquez said she hadn’t even heard ofwhen the magazine approached her and other muxes in her community in Juchitán, Oaxaca about participating in a photo shoot last August. The feature is intended to highlight the significance of muxes and the vital role they play in Mexican society, typically as caregivers, artisans, and skilled workers.
Although the origin of the term “muxe” is uncertain, it’s thought to be derived from the Spanish word “mujer,” meaning woman. Anthropologist Pablo Céspedes Vargas writes inabout muxes that this community of gender-nonconforming people is widely considered a third gender in Mexico. “Additionally, the word ‘muxe’ does not hold any derogatory connotations at all, and the Zapotec language embraces gender diverse people in its vocabulary,” Vargas writes. “The fact that the term ‘muxe’ is not derogatory is quite meaningful since language is constitutive of culture.”
The acceptance of muxes is more the exception than the rule in Mexico, where 81 percent of the population identifies as Roman Catholic. According to the, the country has the world’s second-largest number of Catholics, at more than 100 million people. This religious dominance strongly affects the culture’s customs and norms. In Mexico, that often means religion is used to justify discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community.
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