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Leitis in Waiting | Promo

Season 8 Episode 2 | 30s

The story of Tonga’s evolving approach to gender fluidity through a character-driven portrait of the most prominent leiti (transgender) in the Kingdom, Joey Mataele, a devout Catholic of royal descent. LEITIS IN WAITING reveals what it means to be different in a deeply religious and conservative society, and what it takes to be accepted without giving up who you are.

Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Extras
Indigenous women around the Pacific seek support in their birth choices.
Rava Ray, Tahitian photographer and artist, sought an ocean birth for her first child.
Kimi Werner, Native Hawaiian free diver and spearfisher, shares her first birth journey.
Ioana Turia, competitive paddler and free diver, shares her birth journey in Rarotonga.
Native Hawaiian mother-daughter activists stand to protect their sacred Mauna Kea.
Two sisters, Kapulei Flores and Hāwane Rios, share a responsibility to protect Mauna Kea.
Thousands of Native Hawaiians and protectors of Mauna Kea gather in protest.
New theater production by Kumu Hula Patrick Makuakāne reclaims and celebrates māhū people.
Kumu Patrick Makuakāne designed his show to be inclusive in dance, song, and costume.
What does it mean to be māhū? Kumu Patrick Makuakāne shares why it's the name of his show.