Nación Trans. Un proyecto de Antonio López

Photographic exhibition by Antonio López at the Museo de América in Madrid addressing the historical and ongoing discrimination faced by Indigenous trans women in the Americas, as well as their forms of resistance.

The exhibition is housed in the Sala La Tapada at the Museo de América and brings together a set of photographs that traces the origins and persistence of the discrimination faced by Indigenous trans women across the continent. The approach is based on the idea that current hierarchies carry the marks of colonisation, and that this legacy translates into expulsion from the family home, lack of resources and constant exposure to violence.

The itinerary also focuses on these women's capacity to resist and organise. The show presents a community sustained by solidarity, the assertion of autonomy over one's own body and forms of belonging built from the margins. Before colonisation, several Indigenous societies recognised diverse gender identities, such as the Zapotec muxes or the Navajo nadleeh, who held a significant place in their communities; the imposition of a binary moral order gradually relegated them until they were largely erased.