Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #culturaltraditions, aggregated by home.social.
For generations, Indonesia’s Huaulu community hunted endangered cockatoos for a sacred ritual; now they use naturally shed feathers | World News
Representative Image of salmon-crested cockatoos in a lush forest on Seram Island (AI-generated …
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #culturaltraditions #Endangeredspecies #Huaulucommunity #Indonesiaconservation #naturallyshedfeathers #salmon-crestedcockatoo #Science #traditionalrituals #UK #UnitedKingdom #Wildlifetrafficking
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/744556/
For generations, Indonesia’s Huaulu community hunted endangered cockatoos for a sacred ritual; now they use naturally shed feathers | World News
Representative Image of salmon-crested cockatoos in a lush forest on Seram Island (AI-generated imag…
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #AU #Australia #culturaltraditions #Endangeredspecies #Huaulucommunity #Indonesiaconservation #naturallyshedfeathers #salmon-crestedcockatoo #Science #traditionalrituals #wildlifetrafficking
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/862607/
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1160107/ For generations, Indonesia’s Huaulu community hunted endangered cockatoos for a sacred ritual; now they use naturally shed feathers | World News #CulturalTraditions #EndangeredSpecies #HuauluCommunity #IndonesiaConservation #NaturallyShedFeathers #SalmonCrestedCockatoo #Science #TraditionalRituals #UK #UnitedKingdom #wildlife #WildlifeTrafficking
https://www.europesays.com/ie/648005/ For generations, Indonesia’s Huaulu community hunted endangered cockatoos for a sacred ritual; now they use naturally shed feathers | World News #CulturalTraditions #Éire #EndangeredSpecies #HuauluCommunity #IE #IndonesiaConservation #Ireland #NaturallyShedFeathers #SalmonCrestedCockatoo #Science #TraditionalRituals #Wildlife #WildlifeTrafficking
A Map of Gender-Diverse Cultures
This text and the language in the corresponding map was updated in consultation with a world gender expert in October, 2023.
"Throughout recorded history and since time immemorial, thriving cultures have recognized, revered, and integrated more than two genders. Terms such as #transgender, gay, or bisexual are Western constructs that often assume three things: that there are only two sexes (male/female), as many as three sexualities (gay/straight/bisexual), and only two #genders (man/woman).
"Even after the end of the modern era and as the #colonial period wanes, hundreds of distinct #Indigenous societies around the globe still retain their own long-established traditions for third, fourth, fifth, or more genders. The subject of #TwoSpirits, Fred Martinez, for example, was not a boy who wanted to be a girl, but both a boy and a girl — an identity his Navajo culture recognized and revered as #nádleehí. Meanwhile, Hina of Kumu Hina is part of a #NativeHawaiian culture that has traditionally revered and respected #mahu, those who embody both male and female spirit. It’s not uncommon for third gender people to perform critical spiritual and religious functions in their communities.
"Among many Indigenous societies, two prominent features often distinguish the lives and social roles of third gender persons from those of cisgender persons or contemporary transgender persons in non-Indigenous societies. The first is that many Indigenous terms for third gender people contain both the word for 'man' and 'woman' in their construction, and that #ThirdGender people are seen as embodying both of those genders in diverse ways. The second is that the history of many third genders is in the community role of religious specialists, which also takes diverse forms, depending on the beliefs of diverse cultures. While not all third gender persons are defined in these terms, across our species, this phenomenon of the third gender religious specialist, healer, or spiritual worker has been part of our #CollectiveIdentity and human experience since time immemorial.
"Since the beginning of the 21st century, we’ve seen tremendous expansion of the role that transgender, #GenderDiverse, and third gender people have in society, following the tenuous establishment of civil rights for #gay and #lesbian people in many nations and increased access to #genderaffirming care in the transgender community. Many Indigenous transgender people who also identify as third gender are familiar to large audiences via their participation in popular media or social media activism. Third gender people, like the Japanese-Samoan, #Faafafine artist Yuki Kihara, now participate in major global cultural events and function not just as representatives of their gender-based community, but of their nation. Kihara had both a solo exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and represented New Zealand at the 2021 Venice Biennale. [For more: '#LGBTQIA+ Pride and Two-Spirit People' in Smithsonian Voices.]
"In the 21st century, many third gender people choose to take advantage of #GenderAffirmingCare, and identify, in addition to being third gender, as transgender. As access to gender-affirming care parallels healthcare access, and both third gender and Indigenous persons are often marginalized economically, it is not as readily available to many Indigenous transgender people, and within Indigenous cultures, medical transition is often seen as separate or secondary to social transition.
"Within #Western societies, despite centuries of suppression, there are still traces of a past when third or fourth or more genders were recognized within many cultures and societies. In rare cases, they presently exist. An example of this would be the #burrnesha of Albania, women who give up their social role as women to live as men. Likewise, within Jewish culture and law, as many as eight genders have been historically recognized, and in diverse ways.
"Take a tour with this world map, and learn how many cultures see gender diversity."
Learn more:
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/content/two-spirits_map-html/
#PBS #GenderDiversity #CulturalTraditions #Genders #ThreeGenders #ThirdGender #FiveGenders #Gender #GBLTQ #Genders
The third gender of southern #Mexico
In #Oaxaca’s #IstmoDeTehuantepec region, the traditional #Indigenous division of three genders is seen as a natural way of being.
by Ola Synowiec
26 November 2018
" 'Which form should I use when I talk to you: feminine or masculine?' I asked #LukasAvendaño, who I had seen in trousers earlier in the day but now was wearing a traditional black skirt with colourful embroidered flowers called an enagua. We were speaking in Spanish, with its gendered nouns and pronouns. 'I prefer you’d just call me sweetheart,' Avendaño giggled.
"Here, in the Istmo de Tehuantepec region in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, there are three genders: #female, #male and #muxes. This third classification has been acknowledged and celebrated since #PreHispanic times, and it’s hard to imagine life without muxes here. But in this region where most people speak the indigenous #Zapotec language, my question doesn’t make much sense.
'In Zapotec, as in English, there are no grammatical genders. There is only one form for all people. Muxes have never been forced to wonder: are they more man or woman?' Avendaño explained.
'We’re the third sex,' added Felina, who, unlike Avendaño, decided to change his given male name, Ángel, and goes only by this moniker. 'There’s men and women and there’s something in between, and that’s who I am.' "
Read more:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20181125-the-third-gender-of-southern-mexico
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/Zkwm0
#Gardens that Nurture #Culture
Spring 2022
Excerpt: "Growing one’s own food became more appealing and, in some cases, a greater necessity to many in this pandemic era. #NativePeoples have long tended gardens that have provided their communities with #sustainably grown foods, #MedicinalPlants and #NaturalMaterials. Today these much-needed sources of local, healthy foods are also places to cultivate and preserve #CulturalTraditions.
" 'Even some Native cultures—like #foraging cultures—that didn’t historically garden now see it as a helpful use of land and time and money because they can efficiently produce the kinds of foods that people need to stay healthy,' said Elizabeth Hoover. Of #Mohawk and #Mikmaq descent, she is an associate professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California in Berkeley. Researching this trend, she drove 20,000 miles in 2014 to talk with dozens of #AmericanIndian gardeners and food advocates.
"In western North Carolina, David Anderson works as the horticultural operations supervisor at the #JessieOwleDugan #NativePlant and Greenhouse Facility of the Eastern Band of #Cherokee Indians. The complex includes three #greenhouses, 30 raised growing beds, a 3-acre nursery and 5 acres of fields dedicated to producing crops specifically for their seeds. It also has 330 acres of field that can be leased to enrolled tribal members who wish to garden or farm.
"While the facility does generate funds for the tribe, it also preserves culturally important species to get them into the hands of tribal members to plant. It focuses on growing traditional plants, such as #grapes, #elderberry, #WildStrawberries, #blackberries, #huckleberries sochan and #cohosh. In 2021, the greenhouse also grew #hickory saplings, which once mature, can to provide wood that can be used to make stickball sticks, artworks and other traditional projects. 'We serve our community with plants for home, for farmers, and for restoration,' said Anderson."
Read more:
https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/gardens-that-nurture-culture
#SolarPunkSunday #TraditionalFoods #NativeAmericans #CulturalPreservation #GrowYourOwnFood #Resilience #FoodSecurity #HeirloomPlants #SeedSaving
Shaanxi Culture Amazes Paris, Enriching China-France Cultural Exchange
PARIS, June 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — China-France cultural exchange has been enriched with new vitality as two events were…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #China #culturaltraditions #CultureDay #IntangibleCulturalHeritage #Marie-PierreBoucherHollier #Notre-DamedeParis #Paris #ShaanxiProvince #SilkRoadsProgramme #TangPoetry #thePeople'sGovernmentsofTongchuanCity #UNESCOHeadquarters
https://www.europesays.com/france/29142/
Project Riwayat explores how environmental decline drives cultural loss in Penang exhibition
GEORGE TOWN, May 2 — For centuries, the environment has served as a source of inspiration for stories, dances,…
#Environment #BrightOng #Christine #ChristineDas #culturaltraditions #exhibitioncentres #Irrawaddydolphins #LouisaPonnampalam #Malayantapir #PeterOng
https://www.europesays.com/2960657/
Project Riwayat explores how environmental decline drives cultural loss in Penang exhibition https://www.byteseu.com/1983922/ #BrightOng #Christine #ChristineDas #CulturalTraditions #environment #ExhibitionCentres #IrrawaddyDolphins #LouisaPonnampalam #MalayanTapir #PeterOng
@ShutterRatata great photo.#Robins (#Erithacus #rubecula, #Muscicapidae) are endearing to us, partly due to their short #flightdistance. Combined with their attractive #appearance, they evoke positive associations in us. Therefore, they e.g. play a role in #culturaltraditions (Christian legends).They have twice been #BirdoftheYear in Germany. In 1963, robins were the first animal, in which the presence of a #magneticsense (#orientation via Earth's #magneticfield) was proven. Text: S.F.Wirth
“I came to the West because I wanted the West, not a multicultural bazaar”—UnHerd U.S. Editor Sohrab Ahmari
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#VintagePostcard #AntiquePostcard #Djibouti #SomaliCulture #WarriorDance #TraditionalDance #AfricanHeritage #EthnicDance #CulturalTraditions #HornOfAfrica #HistoricalAfrica #Early20thCentury
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/255710/ ‘Without them we would not live’ #Amazon #CulturalTraditions #Éire #IE #IndigenousCommunities #Ireland #MicaelaHuamanFernandez #RosaVasquezEspinoza #Science #StinglessBees #Wildlife
‘Without them we would not live’
In the remote forests of central Perú, stingless bees are doing far more than making honey. They’re anchoring…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #Amazon #culturaltraditions #Indigenouscommunities #MicaelaHuamanFernandez #RosaVasquezEspinoza #Science #stinglessbees
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/375042/
‘Without them we would not live’
In the remote forests of central Perú, stingless bees are doing far more than making honey. They’re anchoring…
#NewsBeep #News #Wildlife #Amazon #CA #Canada #culturaltraditions #Indigenouscommunities #MicaelaHuamanFernandez #RosaVasquezEspinoza #Science #stinglessbees
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/374031/
🌕 Văn khấn Rằm tháng 8/Tết Trung Thu 2025: Tưởng nhớ tổ tiên, cầu bình an - tài lộc qua nghi thức tâm linh sâu sắc. Kết hợp cùng niềm vui rước đèn, phá cỗ truyền thống!
#TrungThu #MidAutumnFestival
#TếtTrungThu #VanKhan
#VănHóaViệt #CulturalTraditions
https://vtcnews.vn/van-khan-cung-ram-thang-8-nam-2025-chuan-ar968815.html
Good Friday and Easter: A Cycle of Death and Rebirth
Images generated with SD-1.5, overworked with inpainting and composing.
#Christianity #PaganTraditions #Renewal #Hope #Spirituality #CulturalTraditions #gayart #consolation #comfort
BC IN BC: 3gens of Batoche Carons in BC. Mittens made for my father. Exhibiting right now at the BC Amelia Douglas Institute.
Black and white photo of hide mittens with intricately beaded cuffs.
#beadwork #culturaltraditions
I wanted to host a wonderful multicultural potluck gathering early Fall but can't host anything like that or host any big cultural holiday events like Chinese New Year until a full year has passed since Dad's passing.
This is one of the ways us traditional Teochew Taoist Chinese honour our most beloved family loved ones. It is not a huge sacrifice. It is showing enduring respect & honour for my deceased Dad ❤
#AsianMastodon #Teochew #Chinese #CulturalTraditions #RespectForAncestors #Reverance
'Marrying Only to Satisfy Parents': A 20-year-old woman in #China went viral on the #internet as a video of her dramatic breakdown at her #wedding surfaced on social media. https://www.chinatechnews.com/2023/01/13/89440-marrying-only-to-satisfy-parents-chinese-bride-breaks-down-over-forced-wedding #CulturalTraditions #SocialMedia
