{"product_id":"samoan-queer-lives-hardcover","title":"Samoan Queer Lives - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamoan Queer Lives is a collection of personal stories from one of the world's unique indigenous queer cultures. The first of its kind, this book features a collection of autobiographical pieces by fa afafine, transgender, and queer people of Sāmoa, one of the original continuous indigenous queer cultures of Polynesia and the Pacific Islands. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing 14 autobiographical stories from fa afafine and LGBTIQ Samoans based in Sāmoa, Amerika Sāmoa, Australia, Aotearoa NZ, Hawai i and USA. Includes a foreword and introduction by co-editors Dan Taulapapa McMullin and Yuki Kihara. Each story is accompanied by a portrait. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I've never really tried to be either a girl or a guy. I've always been me. And I suppose being me is fa afafine. Then, all of the expression I put in my work is I. It's not colored by any gender of any kind. I've never been cautious of what is man or woman, how I see my perspective of any situation, and it was not ever politicised or in a contest where a fa afafine or a man or a woman is treated in any way.\"","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51433886351583,"sku":"9781877484094","price":60.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7_7VZ0wgzP9781877484094.webp?v=1790020590","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/samoan-queer-lives-hardcover","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}