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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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this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2026
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I can definitely respect thats your experience and your like truth and all, I personally love being trans! It rocks! Even the early stages, there were parts that were rough as fuck but the euphoria was great. Later, Ive had HRT for a while, voice training, bottom surgery, and its all just background stuff (which is a great passive boost tbh)
So I do like the euphoria, lately that's been watching my tits come in, but there's just soooo much I struggle with. Like even just that I have to voice train, and get srs (and all the after), and ffs, and all of it is so much I hate it. Plus society. If I was post all of that I'm sure I'd dislike it less.
Thanks for responding :cat-trans:
yeah it is a lot of effort. totally discounting society, it takes so much energy and intentionality to mold yourself someone you can be happy living as. idk about you, but i was checked out for two decades because it was easier to go with what i was supposed to do than conceptualize and act on gender. now its so much goddamn work, all the time, but i feel so so good about it
i was reading an older academic book by a trans man and i thought this was very apt at encapsulating the level of effort that goes into our realities
but instead of wage slavery, it’s for yourself!
society is locations based unfortunately, but hopefully the center after the move can help!
For me, it was more about finally letting go and doing what I felt was right at a gut level rather than thought. Being a man took way more effort for me than being a woman ever did, because being a woman came as natural to me as being a mammal (so below the level of concious thought). Now, theres a whole lot of women in my life from family to friends to mentors to professors to people I look up to, that are alt, femme, resilient, strong, traditional etc so I had plenty of examples to learn from over the hegemonic ideal of Femininity™️
you know, that’s a good mentality. i hope to get there eventually, but practically it’s been a lot of steps in these first months. i’ve started to develop some close relationships with women i admire but there’s so much to learn/unlearn and figure out that i can’t say it’s come easy just yet. plus still being closeted in the workplace has been a major block on getting closer with anybody tbh.
i can totally see it coming down the line though. i don’t anticipate life always needing this much brainpower, but there sure has been a lot to figure out and process within the first year
It is not coming naturally to me 😭 the things I'd do for that to be my experience. This shits hard as fuck and takes so much effort.
Yea it really is :/ totally agree with that quote too.
Society is shit everywhere, maybe maybe Cuba is good for us. But overall everyone is pretty shit on us. I'm really hoping so though! I am really looking forward to it.