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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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.
I haven’t even tried alcohol or cigarettes.
I still think DIY should be normalized.