Marines Perez Santos is an unusual Maya weaver: He is male. As a child, Marines would help his mother prepare her backstrap loom for weaving by setting up the warp, or the set of threads placed ...

MEXICO CITY — Xaneri Merino wasn't meant to follow in her grandmother’s footsteps. Now a transgender woman, she was identified at birth as a boy in San Pedro Jicayán, an Indigenous community in ...

Join artist Travis Meinolf for a series of participatory, site-based weaving workshops using backstrap looms that physically connect the weaver to the new BAMPFA building. “The backstrap loom is a ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Xaneri Merino wasn’t meant to follow in her grandmother’s footsteps. Merino was expected to tend cattle or work in the fields. Yet her grandmother defied those rigid gender norms, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. MEXICO CITY — Xaneri Merino wasn’t meant to follow in her grandmother’s footsteps. Now a transgender woman, she ...