Reflective Blog 1

 Prompt Chosen:   Using examples from the readings, discuss the case of the false gender binary. Image: Images by the HRC Foundation and Bretman Rock      When reading Manuela L. Picq and Josi Tikuna's Indigenous Sexualities: Lost in Colonial Translation, I was intrigued to learn about the diverse ways in which Indigenous societies view gender. Instead of believing a false gender binary, they see gender as a social construct. Growing up in the U.S., I was taught that there were only two genders: male and female. That there is a false gender binary. However, as I've grown and learned more, I now recognize that is not the case. Gender can be fluid and is something that is influenced by your culture/society; it differs all around the world.       In Juchi tán, Mexico,  "muxes" are neither man nor woman but are considered a third gender called Zapotec. Elders even say that in ancient precolonial Zapotec language, there was no difference when...