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photos by Nicola “Ókin” Frioli

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Muxes

Back in the office today starting to work on the Muxe images, thought I would share a couple.   In total I was able to photograph 13 muxe and hope to have them all up online but the end of the week.   

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“A culture of indigenous transgender women that has been part of southern Mexico’s heritage for centuries is getting the Vogue treatment, featuring on the magazine’s front cover for the first time in more than 120 years of publishing.

An indigenous “muxe” woman will appear next month on the cover of the magazine’s Mexican and British editions.

Muxes, a term probably derived from the Spanish word mujer meaning woman, are indigenous transgender women who mix gay male and feminine identities.

The cover photo features Estrella Vazquez, a tall 37-year-old indigenous Zapotec muxe wearing a traditional huipil garment with colourful flowers and holding a pink fan in one hand. The weaver and designer sees the cover as a sign of receding bigotry in Mexico toward muxes. Historically the country’s ingrained Roman Catholic heritage has reinforced anti-gay and anti-transgender prejudice. “I think it’s a huge step,” Vazquez said in Juchitan city in southern Oaxaca state, home to perhaps the largest muxe (pronounced moo-she) community. “There’s still discrimination, but it’s not as much now and you don’t see it like you once did,” she said.

In August, Vazquez, who had never heard of Vogue, was invited along with a dozen other muxes by the magazine to participate in a photo shoot. Vogue wanted to highlight Oaxaca’s indigenous cultures, she said.

“Everyone is seeing this cover, everyone is congratulating me. I don’t know; it’s just hard to make sense of the emotions I’m feeling. It almost makes me want to cry,” she said.”

Read the full piece here

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Other colored versions of the covers from Kromortz - Congenital EP by Ray Castelo 2017, Brazil.

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Fornasetti exhibition/ Triennale di Milano

Photo by Caigo da Mar

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Glory of Nature | Mahmoud Farshchian

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Pink Panther 

Jeff Koons 

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Kitsch interiors at a Nevada house that exists 26 feet underground. Built in the 1960s and meant to survive the end of the world, it is a chintzy time capsule. Via AnOther Magazine 

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i’ve had it up to here

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Creepy Gals Motel Key Tag Keychain from CreepyGals

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gut-wrenchingly fluffy