As soon as punished for weaving, this Mexican artisan makes use of her loom for LGBTQ+ resistance

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Xaneri Merino wasn’t meant to observe in her grandmother’s footsteps. Now a transgender lady, she was recognized at delivery as a boy in San Pedro Jicayán, an Indigenous group in southern Mexico the place males are largely barred from turning into weavers. Merino was anticipated to have a tendency cattle or work within the fields. […]