Alexandra Rodriguez de Ruiz
| Alexandra Rodriguez de Ruiz | |
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| Born | October 14, 1962 Mexico City, Mexico |
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Alexandra Rodríguez De Ruíz, also known as Alexandra Byerly (Mexico City, 14 October 1962), is a Mexican author, translator, researcher and consultant on themes of sexuality, gender, and human rights. In 2006, she, Marcia Ochoa, Elissa Velez, Mitzy Lee and Isa Noyola[1][2] founded El/La Para TransLatinas, an American non-profit organization that supports transgender Latinas in San Francisco, California. In addition to her work as an activist, Rodríguez de Ruiz uses performance art as a medium to denounce and visibilize transphobic, capitalist, racist and migratory violence. Her work as a transfeminist activist has been acknowledged with many prizes, both national and international, including the Compton's Riots Transgender Pioneer Award.[3][4] She is an author published in Spain, Mexico and the United States, with an autobiography called Crucé la frontera en tacones: crónicas de una transgresora which details her journey from Mexico to the United States and the rebuilding of her life in the United States. It talks about having to assimilate herself not only as an unauthorized immigrant, but as a person of color, and transgender woman too.[5] The book is part of a project in Spain called Memorias de las masculinidades disidentes en España e Hispanoamérica which is a collection of autobiographical works that highlights pieces of art and culture which explicitly or implicitly relate to the construction of masculinity in Spain and Latin America produced by authors in sexual and gender minorities.[6]
As of 2018, she is based in Mexico City.[7]
Biography
De Ruiz's early experience with transness, which she began to understand about herself in the second grade, and decision to do gender affirming things had less to do with feeling as if she was trapped in the wrong body, like many other transgender people may describe, but rather she felt as if she was trapped in a society which treated her differently for the body she was born in.[2]De Ruiz's father, who she describes as authoritarian in her book, died when she was 6 years old.[2]At the same age, she began to work at a newspaper stand on one of the street corners in Mexico City with her uncles.[2] Alexandra Rodriguez De Ruiz describes an experience in her early childhood where she was called out to by a group of "flamboyant" people who noticed that she was wearing makeup, which was very formative for her.[8]
She migrated from Mexico to the United States in the 1970s after facing violence and persecution in Mexico.[9]
Activism
She came to work on El/La Para TransLatinas after she was frustrated by lack of resources to help her friend, Ana Fernandez, who was later murdered in San Francisco and subsequently dehumanized in the press.[10]
She is currently living in Mexico City working as the director of the organization called La Jauría Trans meant to support all people who fall into the trans and gender non-conforming umbrella.[11]
List of Performance Art Performances
- Un grito queer TransMigrante (Performed March 7, 2020)[12]
Publications
Books
- Crucé La Frontera En Tacones : Crónica de Una TRANSgresora. Editorial Egales, 2023.
Articles
- Rodríguez de Ruiz, Alexandra (2017-06-01). "Queers Resisting Trump and White Supremacy in Mexico City". QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking. 4 (2): 79–83. doi:10.14321/qed.4.2.0079. ISSN 2327-1574.
Chapters
- Rodríguez de Ruíz, Alexandra; Ochoa, Marcia (2016-03-22). "10. Translatina Is about the Journey: A Dialogue on Social Justice for Transgender Latinas in San Francisco". In Miguel, Yolanda Martínez-San; Tobias, Sarah. Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities. Rutgers University Press. pp. 154–171. doi:10.36019/9780813576435-012. ISBN 978-0-8135-7643-5. Retrieved 2025-03-04. Search this book on
- DeRuíz, Alexandra R. (2023). Alexandra R. Deruíz: Material de Lectura, Núm 13. Ensayo. Nueva época. Material de Lectura Series (1st ed.). Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la Educacion. ISBN 978-607-30-8279-2. Search this book on
- Rodríguez de Ruíz, Alexandra (2018). "Jotas, vestidas, cuinas, locas y mariposas: Historias del movimiento trans en la Ciudad de México". In K. Schuessler, Michael; Capistran, Miguel (eds.). México se escribe con J: una historia de la cultura gay. Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México. ISBN-13 978-607-31-6077-3
References
- ↑ Hernandez, Ellie D.; Alvarez, Eddy Francisco Jr; García, Magda (June 2021). Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-1-4962-2714-0. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 DeRuiz, Alexandra R (2023). Cruce la frontera en tacones: cronicas de una transgresora (in español) (1st ed.). Barcelona, Spain: Editorial Egales. ISBN 978-84-19728-06-7. Search this book on
- ↑ "Activistas en Foco: Alexandra Rodríguez de Ruiz, El/La Para TransLatinas". MPact Global Action. Retrieved 2025-03-04.
- ↑ "Compton's district honors trans women". Bay Area Reporter. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
- ↑ "Libros – MASDIME" (in català). Retrieved 2025-04-01.
- ↑ "MASDIME – Memorias de las masculinidades disidentes en España e Hispanoamérica (PID2019-106083GB-I00)" (in català). Retrieved 2025-04-01.
- ↑ "Pride in Mourning: On the Death of Transgender Activist Roxsana Hernández in an ICE Detention Center". TheBody. 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2025-03-04.
- ↑ DeRuiz, Alexandra R. (2025-02-27). ""We Owe Them Recognition." On Recovering and Preserving Mexico's Trans History". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
- ↑ TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (2023-11-17). Crucé la frontera en tacones, de Alexandra Rodríguez De Ruíz. Retrieved 2025-04-22 – via YouTube.
- ↑ Martínez-San Miguel, Yolanda; Tobias, Sarah, eds. (2016). Trans studies: the challenge to hetero/homo normativities. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-8135-7643-5. Search this book on
- ↑ Vargas, Edgar (July 7, 2020). "Centro Cultural Jauría Trans". Time Out Ciudad De Mexico. Retrieved April 24, 2025.
- ↑ "'Trans migrantes: escapando de la violencia, persecución y afrontando la interseccionalidad en Estados Unidos'". TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
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