#reciprocity — Public Fediverse posts

Dating apps.
Whispers: you'll find a partner
Reality: a minefield of getting ghosted

(Poll version)

#datingapps #ghosting #modernromance #digitalexhaustion #livedexperience #mentalhealth #vulnerability #relationships #reciprocity #reflections #authenticity #boundaries

Dating apps.
Whispers: you'll find a partner
Reality: a minefield of getting ghosted

#datingapps #ghosting #modernromance #digitalexhaustion #livedexperience #mentalhealth #vulnerability #relationships #reciprocity #reflections #authenticity #boundaries

Sending an honest expression of interest only to be met with total silence—while the app shows they are online and viewing your profile—exposes the cold, dehumanising reality of modern ghosting culture.

https://the.kalvin.click/the-silence-of-the-screen-reciprocity-asymmetry-and-the-modern-dating-loop/

#dating #ghosting #communication #reciprocity #livedexperience #mentalhealth #vulnerability #rejection #boundaries #authenticity #modernlove #relationships #empathy

Ghosting on dating apps—when one’s online, views your profile, but never replies—exposes its hypocrisy: the ghoster still expects respect despite dismissing the other.

https://the.kalvin.click/the-silence-of-the-screen-reciprocity-asymmetry-and-the-modern-dating-loop/

#dating #ghosting #communication #reciprocity #livedexperience #mentalhealth #vulnerability #rejection #boundaries #authenticity #modernlove #relationships #empathy

You don't expect it, but any time you've actually had a hand in making something — a friendship, an idea, a shared meal — it ends up remaking you, too.

Further reading: https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/your-self-care-action-items-f1c98bcedca6

#BenKadel #LifeboatAcademy #StayHuman #Reciprocity #Practice

I love this so much!!! ❤️ So #SolarPunk!

#WellingtonNZ #Timebank

"What is the #WellingtonTimebank?

Members of Wellington Timebank exchange skills, time, and knowledge. We use time instead of money as a currency. All work is valued equally, no matter what it is. Timebank is for everyone! Everyone has skills, abilities, experiences and knowledge. Everyone has needs and things that make our lives easier or more enjoyable.

Our Wellington Timebank community spans across the Wellington region and has over 1000 members.

'Wellington Timebank is important because it is an excellent opportunity to make connections between diverse groups of people, helps build trust in the community, share skills and knowledge!'
- Eduardo, Timebank member since 2019


Join the Wellington Timebank

To sign up, all you need to do is:

1. Complete the application form.

2. Complete a Ministry of Justice Conviction check.

3. Attend one of our monthly in-person introduction sessions to learn about timebanking and meet other timebankers.

4. Make a yearly membership donation if you can (Optional).

‍
Vision, mission, goals:

At Wellington Timebank, we are committed to enhancing the lives of members in the community through our wide range of trade opportunities, activities and events.

Vision: In our community we look out for each other and embrace #diversity.

Mission: Through exchanging skills, time and knowledge we foster relationships of trust and reciprocity. We harness the real wealth of the community and the value of each individual.


Values:

- We are all assets. Every person has something to contribute.
- #RedefiningWork. All kinds of work need to be honoured and rewarded.
- #Reciprocity. Relationships are about giving and receiving. “You need me” becomes “We need each other.”
- Social networks. People looking out for each other helps to weave communities of support, strength and trust.
- Respect. All of us matter and are accountable to one another.

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Our People

The Wellington Timebank is supported by a #Kaiwhakahaere / Coordinator and a Steering Committee and hosted by Te Whare Hapori o ngā Puna Waiora / Newtown Community Centre."

FMI:
https://www.newtowncommunity.org.nz/wellington-timebank

#SolarPunkSunday #SharingKnowledge #SharingSkills #TimeBanks #Aotearoea #BuildingCommunity #TimeBasedCurrency

#Reciprocity, #Respect, #Relationality: Three Rs to Understand #IndigenousPerspectives on Development in the #Green conomy

By Edson Krenak, May 27, 2026

"Reciprocity is more than a practice; it is our way of life, the way of life. Instead of focusing solely on economic growth, without limit, we must pay attention to check whether all beings are enjoying life in a healthy place. Without reciprocity, the green economy will reproduce the same extractive logic it claims to overcome, and eventually fail our common home, Earth."

Read more:
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/reciprocity-respect-relationality-three-rs-understand-indigenous-perspectives-development

#IndigenousPeoples #Greenwashing #UncheckedGrowth #Capitalism #Colonialism #ExtractiveIndustries #LoveYourMotherEarth

We Didn’t Get Ruder—We Just Stopped Noticing Each Other: A Pagan View of Everyday Harm

https://pagangrove.wordpress.com/2026/04/22/we-didnt-get-ruder-we-just-stopped-noticing-each-other-a-pagan-view-of-everyday-harm/

Kimmerer’s reminder lands softly but precisely: restoration is empty without relationship. What lasts is the reciprocity we build with place — the ongoing, living exchange that outlives any single intervention.

#BraidingSweetgrass #Reciprocity #RelationalEcology

[Short film] #Tayal #Forest Club

"Ancestors! We’ve gotten stuck here. Can you help us find the way home?” pleads Yukan, an Atayal teenager lost in the forests of his forefathers.

"Bullied at school and weighed down at home by his dad’s drinking, Yukan is eager to escape it all. When his best friend, Watan, invites him on a hike, a physically and emotionally bruised Yukan grabs his machete and the two boys head into the woods. But this isn’t just any hike, or just any woods — as Yukan and Watan’s youthful overconfidence runs them up against the realities of nightfall in the dense and mountainous Atayal homelands, other forces begin to reveal themselves. Before they can find a way home, these two young Tayal men must first humble themselves enough to learn the lessons that the land itself has to offer.

"In TAYAL FOREST CLUB, Taiwan’s first Indigenous female film director, Laha Mebow, shares a coming-of-age tale that interweaves Tayal characters, settings, and symbols with the complexities arising from her community’s interactions with contemporary society."

Watch:
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/tayal-forest-club

#SolarPunkSunday #SaveTheForest #ForestProtectors #Nature #ProtectNature #Atayal #IndigenousTaiwanese #Taiwan #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #LandDefenders #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #WomenDirectedFilms
#IndigenousWisdom #IndigenousKnowledge #Reciprocity

[Short film] #Weckuwapok
(The Approaching Dawn)

"On these traditional homelands, #Waponahkik (the people of the dawn land) bring gratitude to the sun where it first looks our way. Song and stories invite us to accept the new day and put behind us any harm done the day before. These are relational lessons shared from ancestors since time immemorial.

"Featuring in collaboration Passamaquoddy citizens #ChristopherNewell, #RogerPaul, and #LaurenStevens; and #YoYoMa."

Watch:
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/weckuwapok

#WabanakiConfederacy #WabanakiPeople #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #ReciprocityProject
#Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom #Peskotomuhkati #Dawnland #PeopleOfTheDawn

[Short film] Weckuwapasihtit (Those Yet to Come)

#GeoNeptune and #BriannaSmith (#Passamaquoddy)

“Our film is about where we fit in within our communities and regaining everything that was taken from us, including our language, our culture, our ceremonies, and our identities as Passamaquoddy people. We’ve had to do a lot of retracing of our ancestors’ steps. It’s okay to be Passamaquoddy, and it’s okay to not know what it means to be Passamaquoddy, but we can do the work to figure it out together. I’m making this film with my good friend Geo, because it’s usually other people telling our stories for us or telling us what to share and what not to share. This time, we are telling our story in our own way. It’s especially important for us to do this for the young in our community." - Brianna Smith.

"On the Eastern reaches of the occupied territory now referred to as North America, the children of Koluskap call upon ancestral teachings to guide them. Revitalizing cultural practices kept from their elders, Peskotomuhkati young people lead an intergenerational process of healing through the reclamation of athasikuwi-pisun, 'tattoo medicine.'"

Watch:
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/weckuwapasihtit

#WabanakiConfederacy #WabanakiPeople #DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers
#IndigenousFilms #ReciprocityProject
#Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom #AthasikuwiPisun #TattooMedicine #Tattoos #Peskotomuhkati #Dawnland #PeopleOfTheDawn

[Short film] ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (What They’ve Been Taught)

"Filmed on the #QuallaBoundary and #CherokeeNation, ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (What They’ve Been Taught) - pronounced "oo-day-yoh-nuh" - explores expressions of reciprocity within Cherokee communities, brought to life through a story told by an elder and first language speaker. ᎤᏕᏲᏅ is a reflection on tradition, language, land, and a commitment to maintaining balance. This film was created in collaboration with independent artists from both #CherokeeNation and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

"Today’s Cherokees are organized into three federally-recognized tribes: Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians. As with most of the films in this series, language is conveyed as an integral part of how Indigenous peoples interact with the land through culture and their distinct worldviews to enact reciprocity. Tom Belt demonstrates how embedded in the Cherokee language are worldviews for which concepts often do not have easy translations into English. For instance, the fact that there is no word for art, and that the idea of creating something with its source in the natural world means that the artist is not creating something new, but simply remaking that material into something else. “Art” is thus both a medium for creative cultural expression and that which connects humans to the natural world through the transformation of natural materials into what we call art.

"Tom also shares another key perspective, that the world does not belong to humans. He tells us the ownership of the world belongs to those who came before humans, making humans merely guests who have 'to be as careful and responsible as we can be.'

"This film further exposes how gratitude and gifting are intertwined as necessary ingredients of reciprocity. Did you notice in the beginning of the film the offering of tobacco as the tree was taken so the masks could be made? In American Indian cultures the offering of tobacco is an almost universal element of thanksgiving. Other things could be given as an offering as well. By assuming responsibility and respect for what is being taken, the offering constitutes an act of reciprocity and gratitude."

Watch:
https://www.reciprocity.org/films/udeyonv

#DCEFF #IndigenousStorytellers #IndigenousFilms #ReciprocityProject #Reciprocity #IndigenousFilmMakers #IndigenousWisdom #HonorTheEarth #EasternBandOfCherokeeIndians #UnitedKeetoowah #Reciprocity #Gratitude

#NotNews24 | #UnbreaklingFirstAnniversaryNotNews... #IT's #DefinitelyNotNews; but... #IT's #PSiReN.eu's #FirstAnniversary #ComingUp...

#HowExciticatin'...?!

We shall #HaveToDo... #SomethingSpecial; at least #Something a #LittleBitSpecial...

#MyLittleBigBuddy and I are going to #HaveALittleThink about #IT...

And, #GetBackToYou... #Reciprocity #AndAllThat

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#23daystocelebrateOpenEducation

#day21
💥 #OEGlobal23 closed with Kayla Lar-Son's #keynote explaining “The 6 R’s of Indigenous OER’s: Rethinking and Reworking Indigenous Open Education”

6Rs 🎉 #respect #relationships #responsibility #reverence #relevance #reciprocity

1/4 exceptional keynotes - watch
https://bit.ly/OEG23KeynotesYT

#openeducation #librarians #openlibrarians #indigenouslibrarians #indegenousknowledge #openfuture #6RsIndegenouseducation
#sustainablefuture #storytelling