Across the Pacific: Stories of Queer Resilience

Satiu Studios presents Across the Pacific - Stories of Queer Resilience - a new work that celebrates queer Pasifika and the MVPFAFF++ community - queer identities, gender diverse expressions and roles within Pacific cultures.  

MVPFAFF++ is an acronym coined by Phylesha Brown-Acton - a Niuean fakafifine. 

Māhū (Hawai’i and Tahiti) | Vaka sa lewa lewa (Fiji) | Palopa (Papua New Guinea) | Fa’afafine (Samoa) | Akava’ine (Rarotonga) | Fakaleiti (Tonga) | Fakafifine (Niue) | ++ for all remaining identities, gender diverse expressions and roles within the Pacific.  

Across the Pacific - Stories of Queer Resilience is a curated lineup of storytelling through the lens and lived experience of the queer Pasifika diaspora living in Sydney Australia.  

Line up includes: Iki Haangana, Amao Leota Lu, Christine Afoa, Lungol Wekina and Quentin Liutai.

Produced by Gabriel Faatau'uu-Satiu

Stage Managed by Fale Tumanu & Elijah Lemusuifeauali'i