Thursday, June 25, 2026 at 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
Human Resources, Los Angeles
“Travestis somos, vestimos fores, y nos transformamos con las estaciones" Dusting off a seemingly withered past, this performance addresses the transvestite ancestry that survives and flourishes in Abya Yala, emphasizing the sacred role of sexual dissidence and trans people in precolonial times. Lechedevirgen reclaims the symbolic power of flowers and their ancestral connection to transvestism, using the metaphor of blossoming (the blossoming of the trans/travesti body, the same blossoming of revolutions and liberation) to reclaim the history that was erased and extirpated by the processes of domination that imposed compulsory heterosexuality and a cisgender fundamentalism that still pathologizes, criminalizes, and takes the lives of our transvestite/trans/non-binary communities. The word “Xochihua,” translated as “she who carries the flower,” is the Nahuatl term for transvestites and queer men—homosexual men who dressed and acted as women—in Aztec times before colonization in the territory now known as “Mexico,” the second deadliest country for trans people in the world in the current context. Xochihuas are strongly linked to Xochipilli, the “lord of flowers,” a deity of art, joy, ecstasy, sexual pleasure, sacred flowers, and entheogens. Lechedevirgen (they/them), is a non-binary sexual dissident mexican artist that conceives of their artistic work as the creation of acts of disobedience and symbolic revenge, combining writing, performance, ritual, and expanded transvestism from an anti-patriarchal, anti- colonial, and anti-racist perspective. A representative of the LGBT+ counterculture and a pioneer of post-pornography in Mexico, their invented "Heterosexual Deconversion Therapies" and is the author of "Deshacer el Arte" (OnA Ediciones, 2025), "Pensamiento Puñal" (Dos Filos, 2022), and the phrase "I Don't Feel Pride, I Feel Rage," which addresses hate crimes and critiques pinkwashing. Them has presented their work in Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, the United States, Canada, and Europe. Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live