#tongan

[folkfashion]

Tongan duo's clothing, Seta & Selywn Vaka, Tonga, by I-Kone Photography

[celluloidrainbow]

LEITIS IN WAITING (2018) dir. Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu & Joe Wilson & Dean Hamer The story of Joey Mataele and the Tonga Leitis, an intrepid group of transgender women fighting a rising tide of religious fundamentalism and intolerance in the South Pacific Kingdom. (link in title)

[talahui]

screaming, crying, throwing up etc. but Friends of Tonga just released a literacy app with both English and Tongan language books [see my laments about access to books in Tongan a few weeks back]. these are books that were being written and illustrated over a decade ago and being passed around our schools as photocopies of photocopies of photocopies.

cannot oversell what an incredible resource this is both for kids in Tonga and for the broader diaspora who often don't have the resources that make learning the language accessible. mirror books and not just window books.

The first reading apps built for the Kingdom of Tonga. Available in English and Tongan, Tau Laukonga ("Let's Read") is a force multiplier fo

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[gifcity]

Luciane Buchanan, Gold Gala 2025

[sourliketelie]

I got bored and logged into my SC for the first time in forever, and did a thing 👀

[uranic-romantic-bisexual]

Shout out to mironisan and Polynesian trans men

Shout out to the ones who moved due to climate change

Shout out to the ones who are trying to make their country more accepting

Shout out to the ones that make music (link it)

Shout out to the ones that headcanon characters to both be Micronishan/Polynesian and transmasc because you're unable to find characters that are both

Shout out to the ones that don't have an English name

Shout out to the ones who love animation

Shout out to the ones who like horses

Shout out to the ones that are aro

I love yall

[usoinked]

Wargames was ight ig

Anyways I’m finna go try and finish this Talla fic 🚶🏽‍♀️‍➡️