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For this Indigenous community, today is Women’s Day. In Cotacachi, Ecuador, July 1st is Warmi Puncha and it’s a day to celebrate Kichwa women with dance, song, and parades. Part of the Andean concept of yanantin (parity), its backstory goes even deeper. ¹/
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Warmi Puncha, as it is celebrated today, began around the 90s. However, elders like Mercedes Chico from Turuko state that it used to be only Native men dressed as women (warmi tukuska) who came out to dance. Thus, Warmi Puncha celebrates Andean femininity as a whole in (non-)binary terms ²/
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