You may think that Macha Mexico is obsessed with Xochimilco—but only until you are there you could understand why we go back again and again. Every time I have been there, I have enjoyed the company of great machas and savored great food made right in front of me by an expert woman who [...]
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VII Congreso Nacional de Educación Sexual y Sexología FEMESS
This Wednesday the VII National Conference on Sexual Education and Sexology will start in Oaxtepec, Morelos. The Conference is organized by the Mexican Federation of Sexual Education and Sexology, a group of activists, and sexologists that promote sexual and reproductive rights in Mexico.
One of the highlights of the Conference is the presence of Mariela Castro, [...]
Food and Queers this Week in Zacatecas
This weekend, Macha Mexico is heading northward to the beautiful city of Zacatecas in order to attend to a couple of conferences that are taking place in this colonial spot. The title of the first one is The Global Food Crisis, organized by the Doctoral Program in Development Studies at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, [...]
Celebrate Mexico Now (in New York City…)
As someone who truly loves Mexico City, but is based (for the time being) in Brooklyn, NY, I was thrilled to realize that this week (Sept. 8-15) is the fifth annual Celebrate Mexico Now Festival here in New York City.
From their website:
Celebrate México Now, a groundbreaking citywide festival, offers an introduction to the vanguard of contemporary Mexican [...]
Tepoztlán: a Macha’s Day Out
Tepoztlán is a little town located 50 miles South of the Mexico City. It offers at least three things that machas love: delicious (vegetarian optional) food, spiritual insight in the shape of temazcales and massages, and a hill to climb in order to prove your resistance as a big macha.
I’ve been in Tepoztlán many times, [...]
Luzónica
Great machas in a great city. This is the best definition of Luzónica, a group of young queer women based in Oaxaca City, who seek to sensitize Oaxacan society about sexual diversity through arts and cultural expressions.
Carina, Yiyi, Cois, Lety, Sofi—all of them between 19 and 30 years old—decided to create this group to satisfy [...]
Orgasmic Micheladas at Restaurante Marifer: a narrative of Pie de la Cuesta
A bout of wanderlust last summer left me itching to get out of D.F. to explore parts of Mexico that I had never visited.
After a friend decided to lend us her car for a few days, we decided to take a road trip to Acapulco. I wanted to spend a day or two indulging in [...]