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Fa’afafine

2/13/2014

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http://womenpacific.tumblr.com/post/74373458782/photo-above-is-taken-from-faafafine-in-the

Photo above is taken from Fa’afafine:  In the Manner of a Woman by Shigeyuki Kihara

"Drawing on archival nineteenth-century South Seas postcards, Kihara poses as both a Samoan man and woman, and in three panels of a dusky Polynesian maiden reveals her dual sexuality to challenge the binary model of Western sexuality that labels third sex/gender categories deviant (Pictured above).

Shigeyuki Kihara is a visual and performance artist based in Auckland, New Zea­land. The recipient in 2003 of Creative New Zea­land Art Council’s Emerging Pacific Island Artist Award, her cutting-edge work challenges cultural stereo­types and dominant norms of sexuality and gender. Crossing borders is integral to Kihara’s life. She grew up with a Japanese father and Samoan mother, and in adolescence began occupying the Samoan space (vä) of a Fa’afafine—a liminal gender category best translated as a male who identifies as a woman.”http://muse.jhu.edu/


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