Samoan Queer Lives
$55.00
Dan Taulapapa McMullin and Yuki Kihara
Samoan Queer Lives provides a glimpse into the unique lives of Samoan people who are ‘fa’afafine’- broadly understood in the Western interpretation as persons who are of transgender, intersexed and third sex or gay, lesbian, bisexual or asexual origin. Fa’afafine have lived their culture for as long as Samoans in the South Pacific can remember. Although ridiculed and then outlawed by explorers and missionaries, fa’afafine not only survived colonialism, they thrived. In this book fa’afafine share autobiographical stories from the 1940s to the present day
