Tag: fa’afafine
2022 Arts Laureate award-winner Lindah Lepou has been a creative interdisciplinary force in NZ Arts since the early nineties, while mentoring and supporting other queer artists. Best known to many on Auckland’s gay scene for founding fa’afafine/takatāpui/trans girl group Pure Funk, which lit up stages and parties with their...
Gay Samoan Popstar, Ezra Phoenix on race, religion and the realities of living as a gay Samoan man.
Pacific Island communities are more likely to accept and celebrate Fa’afafine, or transgender men, than they are to accept and celebrate everyone else on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum. ‘Image’ is everything. If you...
On June 24, Angie Enoka will become the first Samoan fa’afafine to graduate with a Doctor of Philosophy in Media Studies at Massey University.
Ms Enoka hopes that her academic success will encourage other fa’afafine to look at education as a career option and hopes more Pacific people take on postgraduate...
