Posts tagged culture
In Pictures: The Uyghurs of Xinjiang
In Pictures: The Uyghurs of Xinjiang

Slow travels on the Silk Road

Read More
SOCIAL JUSTICE, CULTUREYamuna Flahertyuyghur, uighur, xinjiang, china, asia, ethnicminority, ethnic cleansing, terrorism, stopchina, humanrights, muslim, islam, westchina, portrait, politics, storytelling, photo essay, travelogue, travel photography, culture, kashgar, urumqi, hotan, east turkestan, nan bread, silk road, silk road china, slow travel, slow movement, slow living, slow down, conscious living, sacred life, uyghur people, uyghur news, uyghur people china, canadian writer, canadian explorer, backpacking life, social justice, chinese communist party, silk road culture Comments
Mohkinstsis
Mohkinstsis

How a protest camp unified Calgary’s First Nations

Read More
CULTURE, SOCIAL JUSTICE, ANCESTRAL HEALINGYamuna Flahertymohkinstsis, first nations, indigenous, native indian, blackfoot, siksika, tsuu t'ina, paul band, calgary, alberta, canada, truth and reconciliation, healing, tipi, spirituality, storytelling, photo essay, portrait, portraiture, residential school, colonization, soaring eagles, protest, activism, cash starlight, justice, racism, aboriginal, dehumanization, elbow river, addiction, red road, drumming, drum, creator, round dance, justin trudeau, treaty 7, stereotypes, settler culture, culture, social stigma, roots, decolonization, traditions, slow living, slow down, political activism, sacred living, ancestral threads, ancestral healing, intergenerational trauma, intergenerational healing Comments
Ritual Head Shaving
Ritual Head Shaving

Offering my hair at a temple in India

Read More
CULTURE, INDIA, MEMOIR, ANCESTRAL HEALINGYamuna FlahertyIndia, photo essay, street photography, documentary photography, ancestors, rituals, traditions, culture, tamil nadu, tiruvanamalai, head shaving, tonsure, tonsuring, sacred hair cut, letting go, spiritual transformation, release, Tribe de Mama, slow travel, slow living, slow down, conscious living, spirituality, annamalayair temple, sacred living, head shaving stories, tonsure stories, head shave woman, mundan ceremony, tonsure ceremony, head shave woman india, ancestral healing, ancestral threads, headshave india, headshave stories, headshave stories women, headshave stories india, hair sacrifice india, tamil nadu tonsure, temple offering indiaComment