:Draft:Alexandra Rodriguez de Ruiz

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{{AFC comment|1=I see a decent perosn doing good work, bit I am not persuaded that they pass WP:BIO, nor WP:NAUTHOR, nor WP:NACADEMIC. I wonder if, at this stage of her life, she will be able to create notability. Of course, you may just not have found it ye 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 20:12, 6 May 2025 (UTC)}}

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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{{Cite book |last1=Hernandez |first1=Ellie D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n84qEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Alexandra+rodriguez%22&pg=PT250 |title=Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces |last2=Alvarez |first2=Eddy Francisco Jr |last3=García |first3=Magda |date=June 2021 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-1-4962-2714-0 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=DeRuiz |first=Alexandra R |title=Cruce la frontera en tacones: cronicas de una transgresora |date=2023 |publisher=Editorial Egales |isbn=978-84-19728-06-7 |edition=1st |location=Barcelona, Spain |pages= |language=es}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Activistas en Foco: Alexandra Rodríguez de Ruiz, El/La Para TransLatinas |url=https://mpactglobal.org/learning-object/activistas-en-foco-alexandra-rodriguez-de-ruiz-el-la-para-translatinas/|website=MPact Global Action |access-date=2025-03-04 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Compton's district honors trans women |url=https://www.ebar.com/story/44958/News/News/Comptons%20district%20honors%20trans%20women |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=Bay Area Reporter |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Libros – MASDIME |url=http://www.masdime.udl.cat/publicaciones/libros/ |access-date=2025-04-01 |language=ca}} 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.{{Cite web |title=MASDIME – Memorias de las masculinidades disidentes en España e Hispanoamérica (PID2019-106083GB-I00) |url=http://www.masdime.udl.cat/ |access-date=2025-04-01 |language=ca}}

As of 2018, she is based in Mexico City.{{Cite web |date=2018-06-13 |title=Pride in Mourning: On the Death of Transgender Activist Roxsana Hernández in an ICE Detention Center |url=https://www.thebody.com/article/pride-in-mourning-on-the-death-of-transgender-acti |access-date=2025-03-04 |website=TheBody}}

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.De Ruiz's father, who she describes as authoritarian in her book, died when she was 6 years old.At the same age, she began to work at a newspaper stand on one of the street corners in Mexico City with her uncles. 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.{{Cite web |last=DeRuiz |first=Alexandra R. |date=2025-02-27 |title="We Owe Them Recognition." On Recovering and Preserving Mexico's Trans History |url=https://lithub.com/we-owe-them-recognition-on-recovering-and-preserving-mexicos-trans-history |access-date=2025-03-06 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}}

She migrated from Mexico to the United States in the 1970s after facing violence and persecution in Mexico.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmZNU8tyK1k |title=Crucé la frontera en tacones, de Alexandra Rodríguez De Ruíz. |date=2023-11-17 |last=TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes |access-date=2025-04-22 |via=YouTube}}

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.{{Cite book |title=Trans studies: the challenge to hetero/homo normativities |date=2016 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |isbn=978-0-8135-7643-5 |editor-last=Martínez-San Miguel |editor-first=Yolanda |location=New Brunswick, New Jersey |page=157 |editor-last2=Tobias |editor-first2=Sarah}}

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.{{Cite web |date=July 7, 2020 |title=Centro Cultural Jauría Trans |url=https://www.timeoutmexico.mx/ciudad-de-mexico/gay-y-lesbico/centro-cultural-jauria-trans |access-date=April 24, 2025 |website=Time Out Ciudad De Mexico |last1=Vargas |first1=Edgar }}

List of Performance Art Performances

Un grito queer TransMigrante (Performed March 7, 2020){{Cite web |title='Trans migrantes: escapando de la violencia, persecución y afrontando la interseccionalidad en Estados Unidos' |url=https://teatenerife.es/actividad/trans-migrantes-escapando-de-la-violencia-persecucion-y-afrontando-la-interseccionalidad-en-estados-unidos/2087 |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes |language=en}}

Publications

= Books =

Crucé La Frontera En Tacones : Crónica de Una TRANSgresora. Editorial Egales, 2023.

= Articles =

{{Cite journal |last=Rodríguez de Ruiz |first=Alexandra |date=2017-06-01 |title=Queers Resisting Trump and White Supremacy in Mexico City |url=https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/qed/article-abstract/4/2/79/175377/Queers-Resisting-Trump-and-White-Supremacy-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext |journal=QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking |language=en |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=79–83 |doi=10.14321/qed.4.2.0079 |issn=2327-1574}}

= Chapters =

{{Cite book |last1=Rodríguez de Ruíz |first1=Alexandra |chapter=10. Translatina Is about the Journey: A Dialogue on Social Justice for Transgender Latinas in San Francisco |date=2016-03-22 |title=Trans Studies: The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities |pages=154–171 |editor-last=Miguel |editor-first=Yolanda Martínez-San |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.36019/9780813576435-012/html |access-date=2025-03-04 |publisher=Rutgers University Press |language=en |doi=10.36019/9780813576435-012 |isbn=978-0-8135-7643-5 |last2=Ochoa |first2=Marcia |editor2-last=Tobias |editor2-first=Sarah}}
{{Cite book |last=DeRuíz |first=Alexandra R. |title=Alexandra R. Deruíz: Material de Lectura, Núm 13. Ensayo. Nueva época |publisher=Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones sobre la Universidad y la Educacion |year=2023 |isbn=978-607-30-8279-2 |edition=1st |series=Material de Lectura Series |location=Mexico City}}
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

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