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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    • BountifulEggnog [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Not on it currently (has been out of stock everywhere I’ve looked when I was ordering), but its very interesting to me. Both because monthly injections are appealing and I’ve heard whisperings that monthly cycles can help feminize.

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    • SerialExperimentsGay [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’m actually about to head in the opposite direction because my new GP said she can get me a valerate script. I’ll just try that out, i can always go back to enanthate if it doesn’t work for me. And the same goes for you if you want to give undecylate a shot, just get yourself a vial and see if and at what interval it works best for you. If you end up liking enenathate better, just throw the vial in the freezer as a backup.

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      • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.com
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        2 months ago

        If i would have to keep track of a 14 day cycle i would struggle much more.

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