Image: Museum of the Americas, Madrid
The exhibition installed in Sala La Tapada at the Museo de América has been extended until November 22. It is included in the visit to the permanent exhibition and can be visited through guided tours led by the curator and the cultural mediation team.
'Nación Trans' is a photographic project by Antonio López Díaz that examines the historical and current roots of the discrimination faced by Indigenous trans women in the Americas.
Colonization, initiated with the arrival of Europeans, saw conquest and evangelization impose a system of domination that profoundly transformed the social, cultural and spiritual structures of Indigenous peoples, alongside territorial dispossession and racial marginalization, as well as a moral order based on gender binarism and normative sexuality. Before colonization, many Indigenous societies recognized diverse gender identities, including Zapotec muxes, Mapuche empupillan, Navajo nadleeh and Guna wigudun, who occupied significant places in their communities.
'Nación Trans' portrays how these colonial legacies continue to shape the lives of Indigenous trans women, while gender and racial discrimination produce family expulsion, precarity and vulnerability.
The project also makes visible these women’s resilience and strategies of resistance; its idea of 'Nación Trans' proposes a community based on solidarity, the struggle for bodily autonomy and new forms of belonging from the margins.
