Cooking with Muxes, Mexico’s Third Gender

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Cooking with Muxes, Mexico's Third Gender


https://munchies.vice.com/articles/cooking-with-muxes-mexicos-third-gender

Munchies . Vice/July 29, 2015 / 3:15 pm By  Luis Cobelo   

"In the Istmo de Tehuantepec region of Oaxaca, Mexico, lies the district of Juchitán. This was the land of the ancient Zapotec civilization, whose language and culture still thrives here. One of the many distinguishing characteristics of Juchitán is its population of muxes (pronounced moo-shays), which means "woman" in Zapotecan dialect."