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Stephanie Guadalupe Ramírez González is enrolled in the class of Law and Social Sciences taught by Fernando Medina Meza. The document discusses muxes, an indigenous third gender group from Juchitán, Oaxaca. Muxes are biologically male but adopt female roles and dresses. They have an important role in Zapotec families and celebrations. Some muxes marry women while others marry men. Notable muxes include Francisco Ventura Marven and Estrella Vásquez Guerra.

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MUXES

Stephanie Guadalupe Ramírez González is enrolled in the class of Law and Social Sciences taught by Fernando Medina Meza. The document discusses muxes, an indigenous third gender group from Juchitán, Oaxaca. Muxes are biologically male but adopt female roles and dresses. They have an important role in Zapotec families and celebrations. Some muxes marry women while others marry men. Notable muxes include Francisco Ventura Marven and Estrella Vásquez Guerra.

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Nombre del alumno: Stephanie

Guadalupe Ramírez González


Nombre del maestro: Fernando
Medina Meza
Materia: Ingles

MUXES
Carrera: Derecho y ciencias
sociales
Matricula: 20050423
Fecha: 18/03/2022
Who are the muxes?
• Juchitán, in the region of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, in Oaxaca, is
one of the main cities of the Zapotec culture where the muxes are
located, an indigenous society called the third gender. Muxes are
men who were born biologically male, but who adopt female roles,
because they like it, but they are not in competition with other
women.
Origin of muxes
• The word muxe (pronounced mushe) is the faulty Zapotec
pronunciation of the word woman. The muxe is a person of
homosexual tendency, but considered a third gender in the Isthmus
of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca.
• There is no true record of the origin of this third gender, but it is
known that the muxes originated from the need to provide help to
Oaxacan women.In Oaxaca it is much more common for the pillars
of the family to be a woman.
Role it plays in society
• The muxe has a very important role
in the family and in the festivities, it
is a key piece in the ethnosymbolic
identity of the Zapotecs, because
they have a special respect for the
mother, they also have a
fundamental role in the
ethnosymbolism of the festivities
that they celebrate. , for example,
holding candles.
Clothing
• During this celebration, the
muxe community likes to dress
in the characteristic huipil of the
Isthmian woman, which consists
of a long, flowery skirt, a highly
decorated huipil, with many
flowers, abundant gold jewelry
on the neck, on the hands, on the
the earrings, abundant makeup
and the braiding of the hair.
Mux life
• Some muxes marry women and continue to preserve their role as
muxes and caretakers of their families, and there are muxes who
marry men.
 Francisco Ventura Marven(Lady tacos
de canasta)
Most
outstanding
muxes

Estrella Vásquez Guerra


• “The main woman is the mother, who
is the giver of life, the muxe does not
enter into competition with the
mother, he likes to dress, see himself
as a woman, but he will not enter into
the competition of who is more of a
woman, for example ", highlights Dr.
Natividad Gutiérrez Chong, from the
UNAM Institute of Social Research.

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