2024 March, Jamey Jesperson, “Trans misogyny in the colonial archive: Re-membering trans feminine life and death in New Spain, 1604–1821”, in Gender & History[1], volume 36, number 1, page 99:
In public, she was known as Señora la Grande (Lady the Great) and commonly observed sitting on a small bench ‘in the manner of a woman’ performing traditionally feminine tasks such as making tortillas, washing clothes and cooking meals. Cotita is further documented using endearments such as ‘my soul’ or ‘my heart’ with men and boys who, in turn, only called her by her chosen name. In a revealing statement, one of these lovers testified to the court that if he did not call her Cotita, she would be offended – a point that has completely eluded the extant cistoriography.
