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New world news from Time: Vogue Mexico‘s December Issue Cover Features an Indigenous Trans Woman for the First Time



Mexico’s Vogue December issue will feature an openly transgender ‘Muxe’ on its cover, for the first time in its history. Muxes, or Muxhes, are indigenous transgender women (or third gender individuals) who have existed in southern Mexico for centuries. Accompanying the cover, the magazine features a series of editorial portraits, and profile of the Muxe community in the Oaxaca town of Juchitán.

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MUXE’ Naa: Érase una vez una tierra llena de magia, filigranas en oro e iguanas, en la que la cálida brisa aún susurra LEYENDAS al oído de los transeúntes. Es aquí donde, desde tiempos INMEMORIALES, comienza la historia del tercer género. En mundo en el que las etiquetas parecen imprescindibles, los #muxes aparecen como esa figura que se rehúsa a ser encasillada. El tercer género tiene un importante rol dentro de la historia #zapoteca y se convierte en la prueba viviente de que la magia ancestral aún camina sobre esta tierras. [LINK EN BIO para ver el artículo completo] — Esta historia es una de dos portadas de #VogueDiciembre para nuestra edición de #México. Cerramos este increíble 2019 celebrando nuestro 20 aniversario con maravillosas portadas de principio a fin. ✨ — En esta ocasión y por primera vez, #VogueMexico y @BritishVogue se han unido en una sesión de moda para celebrar nuestro 20 aniversario. Con talentos mexicanos y británicos, esta colaboración creativa les dio a nuestros equipos la oportunidad de intercambiar culturas e ideas capturadas a través del lente del grandioso fotógrafo británico, #TimWalker, produciendo así una historia conjunta para ambas revistas. ¡No te la pierdas! — 📌Encuentra la edición de #VogueDiciembre el 24 de noviembre en quioscos del aeropuerto, 26 de noviembre en tiendas Vips, el 27 de noviembre en tiendas Sanborns y a partir de #diciembre en todo el país. — Fotografía: #TimWalker Realización: @kphelan123 Texto: @karina_ulloa Producción hecha en colaboración con @britishvogue #Vogue20

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On the cover is Estrella Vazquez, a 37-year-old Zapotec Muxe who says she didn’t know about Vogue until the magazine reached out to her for the story. “Everyone is seeing this cover, everyone is congratulating me,” she told The Guardian. “It’s just hard to make sense of the emotions I’m feeling. It almost makes me want to cry.”

Several Muxes were photographed by Tim Walker, a renowned fashion photographer, in a collaboration between Vogue Mexico and British Vogue. “To be muxe is a duality,” says La Kika, a Muxe and activist who is featured in the Vogue story by Karina González Ulloa. “We carry the role depending on circumstance. It could be that you see me on occasion as a man, but in other occasions as a woman.”

Though not immune to machista culture in Mexico that can include violence against LGBT people — Mexico, Columbia and Honduras accounted for 90% of more than 1,300 LGBT murders in Latin America in the last five years, according to a 2019 study — Muxes in southern Mexico are often seen in caregiver roles and are respected for their work as well as their identity.

Vazquez told The Guardian that she has seen a decrease in anti-transgender attitudes and behavior, and called the Vogue cover “a huge step.”

“There’s still discrimination,” she said. “But it’s not as much now and you don’t see it like you once did.”

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