She is a fa'afafine. Like most fa'afafine in Samoa - and there are a few in most villages - Hazy is an accepted member of the community, valued for the work she does. Samoa's social acceptance of ...

Taika Waititi’s ‘Next Goal Wins’ introduces audiences to American Samoan culture, including its third-gender fa’afafine community Taika Waititi’s new movie Next Goal Wins tells the real-life story of ...

They identify as fa‘afafine, a gender other than boy or girl. Fa‘afafine children generally take on girls’ roles in play and family. As adults they remain anatomically male with feminine ...

The Biennale of Sydney and Performance Space present WORKING CLASS CLOWN by Samoan-Australian Fa'afafine Artist Tommy Misa.

There was center back Johnny Saelua, a transgender fa'afafine, in the native tongue, who dressed and lived as a woman, but whose orientation was never questioned nor scrutinized by her teammates ...

Angie Enoka became the first Samoan fa’afafine at Massey University to receive a Doctor of Philosophy in Media Studies. Angie graduated from the village of Togafu’afu’a on the island of Upolu in Samoa ...

Mr Andre Afamasaga talks openly about his struggles to be accepted as a Samoan and Christian gay male in a world where there are fewer Samoan gay males than Samoan fa'afafine. As a former pastor ...

We’ve written a FA Cup beginner’s guide to explain how the world’s oldest soccer competition works, and where you can watch the matches on US television and streaming. Of all the soccer tournaments ...

In Act 1, the fictional Rongen has trouble accepting Saelua’s Fa’afafine (Samoan term loosely equating to non-binary or third gender) identity. But the real Rongen takes pride in having ...

It is manifest in his queer identity as a Fa’afafine, a respected “third gender” in Indigenous Pasifika culture, which sunders the myth of the gender dichotomy. And it is alive, too ...