research such as Lynn Stephens article Sexualities and Gender in Zapotec Oaxaca explore how gender and sexuality are understood within this region based...

In Zapotec cultures of Oaxaca (southern Mexico), a muxe (also spelled muxhe; [muʃeʔ]) is a person assigned male at birth who dresses and behaves in ways...

The Zapotec (Valley Zapotec: Bën za) are an indigenous people of Mexico. The population is concentrated in the southern state of Oaxaca, but Zapotec communities...

S2CID 161526282. Stephen, Lynn (2002). "Sexualities and Genders in Zapotec Oaxaca". Latin American Perspectives. 29 (2): 41–59. doi:10.1177/0094582x0202900203...

2011. Retrieved 21 December 2020. Lynn Stephen. Sexualities and Genders in Zapotec Oaxaca. Latin American Perspectives. 29(2)41–59 Cabral, Julieta (2012)...

gender presentation." In legal cases alleging discrimination, a 2006 law review article by Meredith Render notes "as notions of gender and sexuality have...

in the Western culture is equivalent to a transgender person. In the Mexican Zapotec culture, similarly, instead of only having two genders (male and...

Homosexualities. pp. 293–302. Stephen, Lynn (March 2002). "Sexualities and Genders in Zapotec Oaxaca". Latin American Perspectives. 29 (2). SAGE Journals:...

Retrieved 24 February 2015. Stephen, Lynn (March 2002). "Sexualities and Genders in Zapotec Oaxaca". Latin American Perspectives. 29 (2): 41–59. doi:10...

Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Stanford: Stanford University Press 1991. Healy, Teresa. Gendered Struggles Against Globalisation in Mexico...

including the Olmec, Maya, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, and Purepecha. The Aztecs came to dominate the area prior to European contact. In 1521, the Spanish Empire...

the Maya version was known as Chaac and the Zapotec deity as Cocijo. Chalchiuhtlicue, or "she of the jade skirt" in Nahutatl, was the deity connected with...

surrendered in 1563. Like the Zapotecs, the Mixtecs thrived in the Oaxaca Valley. The Mixtecs consisted of separate independent kingdoms and city-states...

as Zapotec Benito Juárez, who rose in the ranks of the liberals to become Mexico's first president of indigenous origins, and Nahua intellectual and politician...

Cha'tño): Oaxaca, Mexico Zapotec (Be'ena'a/Didxažon): Oaxaca, Mexico Tarascan (P'urhépecha): Michoacán, Mexico Tequistlatecan/Chontal de Oaxaca: Oaxaca, Mexico...

often the major source of protein in ancient Mesoamerica. The Zapotec civilization of Oaxaca is particularly known for its clay funerary urns, such as the...

The Zapotecs embraced the concept of a third gender, which they referred to as muxe, as an intermediate between male and female who played both gender roles...