Festa Junina or Festa de São João
Translating literally, June Festivities or Saint John’s Festivals is a celebration on the months of June and July in Brazil. It originated from European midsummer celebrations and includes some similar traditions like a large bonfire (that seems to make a lot more sense in the southern hemisphere because it happens during winter months) and also a dance derived from palatial European court balls, modified and redefined with new meaning, related to popular and rural themes and paired with brazillian “forró” or country music.
Dressing up and dances
Traditionally everyone wears plaid shirts/dresses, straw hats, painted on gap tooths, very blatant blush on cheeks and lots of painted freckles, girls wear their hairs in pigtails and boys paint on moustaches and beards. This is the stereotypical exaggerated rural look, and is more common for kids to dress this way, while in parties with mostly adults it’s more common to just wear plaid shirts, a straw hat and do some make-up.
The dances are choreographed but very standard between places, with someone announcing vocal cues for specific dance steps, switching partners, doing coordinated group moves and sometimes ending in a mock wedding.
Traditional food
Now, the best part of it all, my favorite thing from this time of the year, THE FOOD!
The traditional foods are super delicious and mostly made out of corn, like corn cakes, cural, pamonha, but there’s also peanuts, specially sweetened peanuts, popcorn, sweet or salted, caramelized apples, quentão, which is a warm spiced drink, that may or may not be alcoholic and is one of my favorite things.
I’ll try to update the thread with some recipes later or maybe just talk more about food, but I can’t promise I actually will.
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ok ok i’m ripping the bandaid off. i’ve told 4 coworkers, soon to be 5, and im going to make it official soon. everyone’s been so sweet (one person started crying and said they could tell
and another has been sending me makeup advice). The switching back and forth between me and the work persona has been too painful. this time next week i will be a full time girl inshallahYay, happy for you, hope it goes well
couldn’t have done it without you gay phone commies
Nice.
this time next week i will be a full time girl
With the girl promotion to a full time position, will you be paid higher girl wages?
they actually cut the wage by 30 percent or something. it’s tough but worth it
Girl you gotta join a girl revolution and girl nationalise the girl business
girl… we need a karla marx ASAP
one person started crying and said they could tell
that’s so swag. I always hope for that reaction but don’t really end up getting it
it was a good one, they’re the sweetest. entirely makes up for my parents being all “oh we never saw this coming this is so out of the blue”
Had therapy last night and think I’ve settled on a name to try on for a bit. So now I’m Ruby!!
Lovely name
Many people are saying this, it seems
Congrats Ruby
I knew you’d make the right choiceNice to re-meet you, Ruby!
Yay happy for you Ruby!
love that! congratulations Ruby!
how’d you get this photo of me every time someone uses the name i specifically asked them to use
I’m in ur walls
Gemstone names are baller
It’s a little annoying cause it’s not my birthstone but I think I can live with that
Can’t you change it to your birthstone?
I don’t think I want my name to be Garnet
I see …
You could change your birthday then
My HRT anniversary is also in my birthday month 🙃 and I don’t have anything else important enough to shift it to
Good naaaaaaaame
Great choice; I appreciate a name taken from the natural world.
My second choice was Cyanobacterium
That would be very memorable.
I’m one of the cool posters who found the trans mega before it was pinned
I came out at work! I’m “full time” now (pun intended)
The good: My immediate coworkers weren’t weird about it. I still get along well with people I work with. I’ve gotten messages of support from people on other teams I work with sometimes. People were mostly ambivalent. And it fucking slaps not having that last vestige of my pre-transition self taking up space in my life.
The bad (CW: Transphobia):
It took over a month after I sent them my name change order for them to update my name in the public-facing systems. And they only found the motivation to do it then because someone outside the company sent me an email being transphobic because the name in my signature and in my email address didn’t match, and I basically said that I wasn’t going to send any more email until the address was changed.
My dad and his pastor are so old but adorable when they hang out, they were driving sunday and saw a gay pride parade with my dad explaining to him “don’t worry it’s just the gays doing pride” his explanation of trans people was just “some people are born in the wrong body” pastor for his credit just accepted it. Woke dad is nice I can’t lie
his explanation of trans people was just “some people are born in the wrong body” pastor for his credit just accepted it.
literally all I need from people
I cut my hair and it’s… cute? Hopefully it’s still cute tomorrow. I’ve been cutting my own hair for a long time now, but it’s a lot harder when it’s not a clipper fade!
It was hard to commit to cause I’ve been growing it out for the last many months, but sometimes you get a bad enough case of triangle head that you overcome your fears I guess.
Is asking for perky DDs and 2 inches on my hips too much to ask for???
Applied to uni with girl name, I love that there’s an easy way of having a name for social purposes while I haven’t had the time to change it. And it’s enforced by law that my legal name be used only for documentation purposes and the social name be used for everything. Even though my family might not even realize yet, everything about me is girl now
You’re like those magical girls with a secret double life
Ha I wish it was that cool
“Boy” at home and girl in the streets.
Must hide from parents.
Cute lesbian romance.
Evil world to fight against.
How it feels to use a Chinese/Russian website without google translate
It’s always odd seeing how some people treat diy, including T. Acting like it’s some impossible to get, highly illegal substance. Or scare mongering about its danger.
Maybe I’m just more willing to do drugs then these people but like, have you ever smoked weed?? I’ve got a list of shit I’d be down for if opportunity presented itself. But you’re going to act like T is this crazy substance? It’s so important too. And like it’s safe, it sterilized, it’s fine. I guess I just don’t understand having such a hangup about it when it’s so important.
Even for people who have HRT easily accessible, DIY should always be an option. It is weird to see how many people struggle with that concept.
Yeah i switched to DIY after i was on prescription HRT for over two years, i just want to be familiar with this stuff in case something happens to my above the counter supply. Also injections are just hands-down better than gel or pills, and hard to get legally in this place. I do have a new GP who is willing to prescribe me valerate now, and i will try that, but it’s likely i will switch back because enanthate just is not available at all through official channels here and idk if picking this stuff up at a pharmacy and having my health insurance pay for it is worth switching from a weekly to a twice weekly schedule.
I have similar feelings on having an up to date DIY knowledge. I’m in a place where it shouldn’t be a worry, but who knows with how the world is going.
Hopefully that doesn’t come to pass though, cause I want to stick to pills lol. Seems like that’s more difficult to find through DIY options
Yea 100%, I’d recommend all trans people to have it as a backup and honestly even a vial on hand.
still kicking myself for dragging my feet on the open gate sale
That’s sucks :/ $40 a vial is unbeatable. Wish I’d have known at the time I might have been able to spot you some crypto.
it’s all good, I was fumbling around with crypto for too long and by the time I tried to check out there was none left lmao. Cest la vie, thankfully I do have a steady supply but it’s good as backup
Brushing off all the memes about authoritarianism, the average is really really deferent to authority and will get very nervous when challenged about it. To many people you’ll sound like a “conspiracy theorist” or a “hippie” or whatever.
T is more heavily controlled, but gym bros can get it super easy, it just might be from some sketchy source
Its controlled where estrogen is not, but its not highly controlled. Its like weed. Literally nothing happens to anyone for having T.
Its not that sketchy.
There are good and bad ways to get T, there are sketchy sources, just got to be careful, same way you’d do with drugs. But it’s also controlled because of it’s use by bodybuilders in excess. Like dangerous levels just for muscle growth and stuff
“no they haven’t” well they should! Loosen up a bit jesus.
have you ever smoked weed??
I haven’t even tried alcohol or cigarettes.
I still think DIY should be normalized.
the singles all know me as a certified heartbreaker the way i routinely break my own heart and no one else’s 😭😭😭
Hookup night didn’t go well I take it?
eh, she said she wasn’t feeling super up for much, plus i got called in for work. She was going through some shit so I get it. I’m just getting my heart broken by “romantic partners” who pretend like what we had wasn’t and my friends stabbing me in the back
in my shit, pass it by (neurotic? Processing)
Kinda wish I didn’t have the whole autism+adhd -> anxiety thing going on. It sucks. Its pride month, so why do I dislike pride? Why do I look at it and feel fear and distrust? Why can’t I let go of all that? I’m hyperaware of peoples perceptions of me, and unable to read people at all. So every little thing that indicates potential social correction is a crisis, and I am never at rest in a group. I’m rarely at rest on my own. I’m tired of performing.
I want to like pride. I want to know that people around me have my back. But all the same I see people and all I can feel is fear. I want to want to go. And a part of me does want to go. Instead I will spend this month avoiding queer people and pride events. I want to feel like I’m one of many, but I also want to be invisible. Dont look at me, but I want to be seen. Its selfcontradictory.
I know I self isolate. I know thats bad. But I can’t bring myself to go out and meet people. I dont know what im more afraid of, people judging me, people being neutral/uncaring, or people being kind. I can’t handle kindness. Someone said they would do something nice for me earlier today and I just couldn’t take it and started silentsobbing. I almost hung up on them. Why does it hurt when people are nice to me? I want to be able to show up, and accept it, and not feel guilty for accepting something nice, not feel afraid of someone doing nice things for me, not feel pain when someone says they care about me…
Thanks for reading if you did, thanks for being a space where I can vent/process.
Why does it hurt when people are nice to me?
Maybe it’s because it makes your expectations stronger and makes you feel like a better type of social situation is possible, but you’re missing out?
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I… I dont know. Cause like, when people I’m not close to are kind to me, I discount it, I can push it away. But when someone knows me and cares about me… It just hurts I dont know. It just hurts. Its correlated with me actually feeling cared about.
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I deal with these feelings a lot as well. After spending a long time being starved, being given a single good meal only let’s you know what you’ve been missing out on, and what you might continue missing out on.
That’s how I’ve always thought about it.
CW mild transphobia
Whenever I notice people staring at me for being a tall stylishly dressed trans woman, instead of getting upset now I mutter under my breath (and occasionally audibly if I have company) “have these rubes never seen a transsexual?” and it makes me feel sexy and cosmopolitan.
So not only is my machine learning group mate a communist, but he also just told me that my part of the report is the sexiest and basically evaporated 80% of my stress with a single sentence.
happy pride month!
The pride mother has given her blessing unto this child
