The Muxhe activist Amaranta Gómez Regalado will speak at the MAPI on “What do we talk about when we talk about Indigenous gender identities? The Muxhe experience as the trigger for a possible debate.”

The lecture will take place on Saturday, October 12, at 12 noon at the MAPI, in the framework of the exhibition “Placeres Originarios. Sexuality, identity and gender in Indigenous societies”.

Amaranta Gómez Regalado was born in Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, Mexico, and belongs to the Zapotec people of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Over the past 15 years she has carried out work that combines social activism with local, regional, and international work in the field of HIV/AIDS, with Indigenous communities, sexuality, and human rights, and she is the author of numerous articles as well as a contributor to documentaries and conferences.

Among other initiatives, she founded and coordinated 15 editions of the Muxhe’s/Nguiu Cultural Days in the city of Juchitán. She was a fellow of the Packard Foundation in the AIDS Action Project in Central America (PASCA), monitoring and evaluating community projects through fieldwork with migrant women workers of “La Línea” in Guatemala City (February to May 2001). She has also designed and taught, among others, the workshop model “Analysis of religious fundamentalisms in Indigenous contexts” (Lima, Peru, 2009).

She is currently completing her undergraduate degree in Social Anthropology at the Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico.

This activity is sponsored by the Embassy of Mexico in Uruguay and the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation, with the support of the company Avianca Taca.

Saturday, October 12 | 11 am
Free admission
25 de Mayo 279, corner of Pérez Castellano
Free parking across from the museum.