Love grows where it is allowed to bloom.
I painted this scene of a Patlacheh and their lover beneath cacao trees heavy with fruit. In Nahua tradition, Patlacheh refers to people assigned female at birth who follow a masculine path. Historical sources preserve only fragments of their lives, but those fragments remind us that Indigenous understandings of gender have always been more diverse than many people imagine.
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This photograph depicts a young man wearing a traditional Ekpo "ghost" mask from the Ibibio people of southern Nigeria || 1932 🇳🇬
📸 British anthropologist G. I. Jones
A field of flowers.
I painted Xochihua for Pride Month. In Nahua tradition, xochihua refers to people assigned male at birth who follow a feminine path. Here, two lovers meet among flowers, carrying blossoms gathered from the earth and offering affection freely beneath the open sky.
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