Once Punished For Weaving, This Mexican Artisan Used Her Loom For LGBTQ+ Resistance

The Associated Press reports that Xaneri Merino wasn’t meant to follow in her grandmother’s footsteps, but now as a transgender woman who was identified at birth as a boy in San Pedro Jicayán, and indigenous community in southern Mexico where men are largely barred from becoming weavers, she is defying rigid gender norms.

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