{"product_id":"samoan-queer-lives","title":"Samoan Queer Lives","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Featuring 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Samoan Queer Lives","offer_id":45370457194693,"sku":null,"price":38.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-877484-27-8.jpg?v=1763503889","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/samoan-queer-lives","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}