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Muxes

2016-12-05 · 10 min · ★ 7.0

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In the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán, the world is not divided simply into males and females. The local Zapotec people have made room for a third category, which they call “muxes” - men who consider themselves women and live in a socially sanctioned limbo between the two genders.

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Ivan Olita
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