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Oaxaca’s Third Gender: Man, Woman, Muxe

Oaxaca’s Third Gender: Man, Woman, Muxe

FromALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library


Oaxaca’s Third Gender: Man, Woman, Muxe

FromALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library

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Length:
69 minutes
Released:
Nov 14, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The program is conducted in both Spanish and English.  Anthropologists have traced the Meso-American acceptance of people of mixed gender back to pre-Columbian Mexico accounts of Aztec priests and Mayan gods who cross-dressed and were considered both male and female. In the shifting landscape of gender identity, what might we learn from the indigenous Zapotec people of Oaxaca’s isthmus region, who embrace a third gender—the muxe—within their communities? Zackary Drucker, transgender multimedia artist and producer of the Amazon series Transparent moderates a conversation with Victor Cata, Zapotec historian, writer, and linguist; Bamby Salcedo, founder of the Los Angeles-based TransLatin@Coalition, and Maritza Sanchez, Embajadora de los muxes en el exterior (Ambassador of Muxes in the Exterior.) Simultaneous interpretation was provided by Antena Los Ángeles. This program was produced as part of The Getty's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LAinitiative.
Released:
Nov 14, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

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