A muxe is cover of Vogue Mexico and Britain
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Next month, the Mexican and British Vogue will feature an indigenous muxe woman on the cover for the first time in the magazine's 120-year history.
Muxes are indigenous transgender women who mix gay male and feminine identities, usually from the region of Tehuantepec in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. They are considered the best son of the family, since they tend to the household and parents when they are old.
The Vogue cover will feature Estrella Vazquez, a 37-year-old indigenous Zapotec muxe, wearing a traditional huipil garment with colorful flowers and holding a gorgeous pink embroidered fan from Oaxaca.
Although the term may not be well-known outside of Mexico, members of the muxe community live throughout the Mexican metropolitan areas in southern Oaxaca. The Zapotec language used in the community is completely gender-neutral.
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