Gêneros não-binários etnohistóricos

o gênero Muxe e a colonialidade

Abstract

This article seeks to understand the gender binarity as an invention and imposition of
coloniality. In order to do so, it reflects on an ethnohistorical case of non-binary gender variation: the case of the muxe gender among the Zapotecs, in Mexico, perceiving how a society with a non-binary gender relates to cis-heteronormativity, patriarchy and coloniality. It is justified by the few academic works on gender non-binary (even more about muxes) and the need to think about it as a social, cultural and historical construction. Thus, the concept of gender, according to Butler, Lugones and Segato, is fundamental to the analysis. Thus, we can see how coloniality defines gender notions in a binary, dichotomous and hierarchical way and
imposes them as a natural, biological and universal reality.