Carmen Boullosa's (1954) daring "Mis cadáveres" (My Cadavers, 2003) shares achievements with Guadalupe Nettel's (1972) "El cuerpo en que nací" (The Body in Which I Was Born) (2011) and María Rivera's (1971) "Variaciones para una autobiografía" (Variations for an Autobiography) (2011). The three autobiographical essays by Mexican women writers describe such sexuality-related moments as losing one's virginity (Nettel), masturbating (Boullosa), and giving birth by caesarean section (Boullosa and Rivera). The pioneering nature of these texts becomes visible through contextual details regarding earlier Mexican women artists Nellie Campobello (1900), Frida Kahlo (1907), Griselda Álvarez (1913), Elena Garro (1916), Clementina Díaz y de Ovando (1916), and Guadalupe Amor (1918). The archives on the Centro Mexicano de Escritores (Mexican Center for Writers, 1951-2006) help to illuminate the nature of ageist pressures exerted on Díaz y de Ovando, as well as on Ángeles Mastretta (1949), Ana Cecilia Treviño (1932), and Amparo Dávila (1928). Writing by more recent generations of writers represented by Boullosa, Nettel, and Rivera suggests that ageism can be overcome in part by exiting the narrative arc of autopathology in favour of meditation, which points to a solution of emptying out the self, contemplating the present moment, and valuing community over individuality.