Graciela Itubide spent almost a decade working in her celebrated Juchitan de las Mujeres series. Iturbide’s photograph Magnolia I Juchitán, México, spotlights Magnolia, who resides in the town of Juchitan, a Oaxacan community that widely accepts the existence of three genders. Magnolia, a Muxe who does not identify as male or female, was photographed by Iturbide in an array of wardrobes and makeup styles, unraveling the constructed idea of gender.

"One of the banners featured Magnolia, Juchitán, Oaxaca (1986), a full-length portrait of a robust transvestite with a broad, handsome face. Her strong, upright figure draped in a long flowered dress is reminiscent of a caryatid. Arms lifted and elbows bent, she balances a small mirror at her right shoulder, reflecting her cropped profile and bifurcating her gaze. She appears to be looking both skyward and somewhere into the distance. This image is so compelling and irreducible, it seems an unlikely choice for a museum’s mass marketing scheme; instead, it offers the public much more: an unexpected experience and a blessedly true indication of Iturbide’s work." Susan Morgan. The Goat's Dance: Photographs By Graciela Iturbide, Aperture magazine, Fall 2008