Muxes

February 14, 2016 (Sunday) / 2:00 pm

Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street

Muxes

Penn Museum Second Sunday Culture Films

The films in this year's Penn Museum Second Sunday Series are curated around the theme of gender & considering the role that gender/identity plays across many cultures.
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MEXICO

Muxes
(Alejandra Islas, 2003, 101 min)

Speaker: Iggy Cortez, Penn Cinema Studies.                 

Muxes (pronounced "Mooshays") documents the lives of gay and transgender Zapotec people in the Oaxaca, Mexico town of Juchitán, locally described as a queer paradise.