In Juchitán, Mexico, muxes – children identified as male at birth, but who choose at a young age to be raised as female – are embraced as part of the community. Being muxe is often confused with being transgender, but it is an identity specific to the Oaxaca region and the indigenous Zapoteca culture. Having a muxe person in the family has come to be seen as good luck and even a blessing. But life outside Juchitán is not always easy.
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For the documentary Muxes, the director Shaul Schwarz reconnects with the characters and culture he photographed extensively from 2002-06
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Director: Shaul Schwarz
Cinematography: Shaul Schwarz, Kike Arnal, Luke Boelitz
Editors: Armando Croda and Noah Payne-Frank
Online editor: Ken Macfarlane
Production: Reel Peak Films
Executive producers for the Guardian: Charlie Phillips and Lindsay Poulton
Commissioned by the Guardian and The Filmmaker Fund
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Ser muxe es ser muxe? Eso no creo que valga como explicación
Indigenista
Lovely program.
Me encanto la historia cada que Boy a juchitas los miro con mucho respeto
My boy would be put up for adoption!
Es Legal En El Estado De Oaxaca 🇲🇽 México 🇲🇽
Que Viva La Cultura Y El Género , Qué Viva El Amor ❤️
The person who first spoke, I couldn’t catch their name, was breathtaking to me. They’re so pretty, and their voice is so soft and nice. They seem like such a lovely gentle person.
K duro .k bellos ala vez .
Ok so it's a femboy
Is there an opposite to this for being a female assigned at birth that dress up as men in Mexico? I'm really interested in looking more about indigenous genders and etc. !
Solo conozco a lady Muxe tacos de canasta. Jeje. Mis respetos
🎆😀🎆
Que cultura linda ❣️😍
i’m mexican and never heard of this, probably just a Oaxaca thing.
11:06 yesno
2 Pedro 3:9
Reina-Valera 1960
9 El Señor no retarda su promesa, según algunos la tienen por tardanza, sino que es paciente para con nosotros, no queriendo que ninguno perezca, sino que todos procedan al arrepentimiento.
VEO TANTO Y CREO QUE MUCHOS LUGARES DEBERIAN APRENDER DE ESTA CIUDAD YA QUE ACA LOS MUXES DE ALGUNA MANERA SON ACEPTADOS POR LA FAMILIA, A COMPARACION DE OTROS LUGARES DONDE LOS GOLPEAN DESPRECIAN POR SU CONDICION , TODOS SOMOS SERES HUMANOS ESO ES LO IMPORTANTE QUE DEBE ESTAR EN NUESTRA CABEZA Y A CADA UNO MIS RESPETOS. EL VIVIR EN ARMONIA Y PAZ ES A LO QUE ASPIRAMOS . BENDICIONESSS
Vidal, has great skin❣️
You Think THAT my Cellphones
Is your cellphone
THE DIRTY NASTY PLACE….WHO CARES
This is a bed energy going around
in the native american tradition they call it being two spirited.
So they are basically trying to say that My Abba made a mistake ??! Y'all keep on with these lies, believe me when The Most High hits this place y'all won't be saying these Blasphemy ever again.
Porque todos lados los comentarios están en inglés??? Si es oxaca mexico
One way to tell. Have the person bend their elbow backward. It it's genetically male, it can only go straight. If female, it can bend farther back.
Why does it happen specically more in that area. I live in a small community in México too and its very rare to see this.
I think that the muxes look so pretty!
01:01 a bueno master, no me había quedado claro
Me parece normal respetar sus propias decisiones.
Why we dont see those people in telenovelas allways whites one didnt know they have rasicm in Mexico
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck..its a duck
Cuchitanga..jaja Que nombre MAS chistoso…
Trasvestis pues…
I'm Mexican and Pansexual and I'm very proud of Mexico history of lgbt 🙂 also this is my first time learning of Muxe
first i found out hawaii has a third gender, then the Philippines, and now Mexico. this is beautiful..
Viendo desde Lima Perú 🇵🇪
9:33 lo quiere potqi lava ropa y ayuda, que egoísta la vieja
En los estadios de futbol Deberian de gritarle a los porteros HEEEEEEEEE MUXEEEEEEEEEEEEE asi la FIFA No dice nada
Is nobody going to mention the dead bird on top of the baby🤦🏼♀️
Okay but, what is third gender??
Every Mexican trans woman I've ever met was from Oaxaca, including my girlfriend 🥰
So there’s a native tribe who has several names for the “social identities” in their society, because they realize that they all contribute something unique to their special society. It’s not fighting against the social norms that’s important, but fighting with it. Like a current. Swim with it and it and it will take you to shore. We will look back sadly on these days when we were so ignorant.
Que bellas y tiernas son. ❤
instead of transmen demanding they are women when they are muxes!
A mothers love.
If Mexicans are being forced to adopt the term Latinx we lose out on the opportunity to learn the old indigenous terms that has existed for hundreds of years. Latinx is just a terribly lazy term that’s literally white-washes their whole experience to some forced wore term from America. Nah keep showing me the indigenous words the indigenous peoples.
Hola este celular es de mi esposo mi nombre es Marlene quiero decirles que son valientes cariñosos todos ustedes son así les respeto y que Dios los bendiga
Muxes is an interesting story ,i unknowed about the muxes