Mar 16, 2023
Bamar woman, Kyal Thazin, Myanmar, by Michelle Yangon Thu
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Bamar woman, Kyal Thazin, Myanmar, by Michelle Yangon Thu
HEY WHERE MY TRANS SOUTH EAST ASIANS AT?
WHERE THE FTM, MTF, NON BINARY, LESSER KNOWN GENDER IDENTIY SOUTH EAST ASIANS AT?
WHERE MY SOUTH EAST ASIANS WHO ARE STILL QUESTIONING THEIR GENDER?
WHERE MY TRANS SOUTH EAST ASIANS WHO DON'T FIT INTO THE TRANS CRITERIA?
WHERE MY SOUTH EAST ASIANS WHO USE DIFFERENT KINDS OF PRONOUNS?
WHERE MY SOUTH EAST ASIANS WHO DRESS FEMININE, MASCULINE, OR ANDROGYNOUS?
YOU PEEPS ARE SO VALID I WANNA HUG/APPRECIATE Y'ALL. PLATONICALLY, MAHAL KITA.
Sincerely a non binary Filipino :D
Pls reblog to spread trans south east asian positivity /lh
Plutt by Henrik Sundholm Via Flickr: Meet Plutt, a cozy birman cat I have nicknamed Blåbär ("blueberry").
Dark Cosmic Jhin by Caitlyn Burman
Until recently we had never heard of Philip Adolphe Klier (circa 1845-1911), a German-born photographer who worked in Burma in the late 19th
Klier took a wide range of pictures, from stylised studio portraits, to candid rural scenes, travelling widely round British Burma in the process. He was clearly fascinated by his adopted home; its customs, its artistic heritage, above all by its people.
Fortunately for Klier’s business, he was far from being the only European to fall for Burma’s charms. His artistic output satisfied a real craving for images of this exotic land. As Rudyard Kipling wrote after a brief visit in 1899: “This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about.”
Garo ma ( গারো মা)
'Garo ma' a sculptures showing how Garo mothers clad their child in the back lap.( jhinaigati, Bangladesh)
The Garos are an indigenous Tibeto-Burman ethnic group from the Indian subcontinent , notably found in the Indian states of Meghalaya , Assam , Tripura, Nagaland and neighboring areas of Bangladesh.
In Bangladesh they are found in notably Mymensingh, Netrokona, Jamalpur, Sherpurand Sylhet,
They call themselves A·chik Mande (literally "hill people," from a·chik "bite soil" + mande "people")
The antecedent home of the Garo is located in the Xinjiang province, north-west of China. They left that place several thousand years ago and migrated to Tibet. Then they moved again to the north-eastern Indian Hill tracts and Northern Bangladesh about 4500 years ago. And finally they migrated to the greater Mymensingh area and established a small feudal kingdom there.
The earliest written records about the Garo dates from around 1800 -
"They were looked upon as bloodthirsty savages, who inhabited a tract of hills covered with almost impenetrable jungle, the climate of which was considered so deadly as to make it impossible for a white man to live there" (Playfair 1909: 76-77).
The Garo had the reputation of being fierce headhunters, the social status of a man being decided by the number of heads he owned.
The Garos are one of the few remaining matrilineal societies in the world.Each husband or the father of children works as a manager of the family. The children assume the surname of their mother. According to the Garo customs, daughters inherit the family property. However, only the selected daughter, known as Nakna in Garo language enjoys that opportunity. Generally the youngest daughter of a family is selected as Nakna.
These cloths, known as Dakbanda are designed with artistic paintings
At present most of Garo males wear lungi. They were also used to attire extra large size colourful thin towel, gamchha like dhuti to cover the lower part of their body. Garo women wear their own traditional dresses at home.These cloths, known as Dakbanda are designed with artistic paintings.
At first the Garo used to follow the religion 'sonatoni ' but now almost all of them follow christianity.
They have their own achik and language which is totally different from local one.
They are advanced in education and social activities than other tribes. They are the second-largest tribe in Meghalaya after the Khasi and comprise about a third of the local population.
Don’t think this old girl is going to be around much longer. Just thinking about it is breaking my heart. Really wish I could be there for her. Wish I’d said a better goodbye and given her more of my time and love. I just hope she isn’t in pain.
I want to animorph into Monchhichi