Muxe

  • Meet Marven, Mexico City's 'Basket Taco Lady'

    Marven, who belongs to Mexico's third gender, chats with us about tacos, Oaxaca, and the power of mezcal.

  • Cooking with Muxes, Mexico's Third Gender

    Muxes are people who are born biologically male and dress as women—but they don't consider themselves cross-dressers or transgender. Instead, they are treated as “the third gender,” and they identify neither as men nor as women.

  • MUNCHIES Guide to Oaxaca - Part 4

    Daniel meets Palo, a local Oaxacan muxe (Mexico's third gender), who shows him traditional food like iguana stew, turtle eggs, and armadillo.

  • The MUNCHIES Guide to Oaxaca - Trailer

    Watch the trailer for our MUNCHIES Guide to Oaxaca, wherein VICE Mexico editor, Daniel Hernandez takes us on a journey through the culinary paradise that is the state in southern Mexico.

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