Dr. Joshua Truett is an artist-scholar whose work explores performance as resistance, resilience, and community-builder. Based on continuing ethnography in Oaxaca, Dr. Truett’s current research project explores festivals in indigenous and mestizo (ethnic/racially mixed) groups in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the Oaxacan diaspora in other parts of Mexico, and the US Southwest. Using decolonial methodologies from queer, trans, and indigenous studies, the project investigates the activism performed by groups of muxes: a non-binary gender and non-normative sexuality rooted in the beliefs and practices of the Isthmus Zapotec culture. Josh is also a producer, writer, and performer who works across theatre, film, and new media. A García-Robles Fulbright recipient in Oaxaca and a University Fellow (Ph.D.) at The Ohio State University, he has received numerous other awards to support his creative work and interdisciplinary initiatives on campus and in the community.
