Saying it through siva
“In three-and-a-half minutes, I showed everyone in the church, including my family, who I really was: a queer Sāmoan Christian.” — Iatua Felagai Taito.
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Tag: Queer
Fighting for a more visible Pacific Rainbow community
“Within the wider Rainbow community, our Pacific voices were very much a minority. Over and over again, our needs were overlooked, sidelined and excluded. We were a minority within a minority.” — Phylesha Brown-Acton.
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Shaneel Lal: I didn’t fit in anywhere
“The young Pacific people who grew up in Aotearoa were taught that to be intelligent, you have to behave and speak like white people. They punish Pacific students like me who don’t behave like white people.” — Shaneel Lal.
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Bringing our Pacific Rainbow stories to the world
“Lisa, and many of the characters in Inky Pinky Ponky are so close to my heart. Their moments and storylines, good and bad, are inspired by my own experiences, and also those of my trans sisters.” — Amanaki Prescott-Faletau.
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We’re part of New Zealand’s Pacific story
“I’ve found it disheartening that their stories are almost always left out when we talk about Pacific peoples and our contribution to New Zealand society.” — Seuta’afili Dr Patrick Thomsen on the Pacific’s Rainbow and Queer community.
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