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Also common in Polynesian cultures - see Faʻafafine from Samoa, Fakaleitī from Tonga, Māhū in Hawaii and Akava'ine in Cook Islands. See also brotherboy and sist
by gassit 3y ago
Also common in Polynesian cultures - see Faʻafafine from Samoa, Fakaleitī from Tonga, Māhū in Hawaii and Akava'ine in Cook Islands. See also brotherboy and sistergirls which is found across Australian Aboriginal cultures.[4]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faʻafafine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faʻafafine
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakaleitī https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakaleitī
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Māhū https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Māhū
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akava%27ine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akava%27ine
[4] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-21/sistergirls-and-brotherboys-unite-to-strengthen-spirits/8040928 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-21/sistergirls-and-broth...
- defrost 3y agoand, the five genders of the Bugis society (Sulawasi). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_Bugis_society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_Bugis_society I grew up travelling about the Indonesian and Torres Strait | Northern Australia islands since the 1960s tagging along with family doing logistics across the region .. no one local bats an eye about others with odd genders, skins, totem animals, etc .. it came as a surprise some decades later that an outraged mindset existed.