No Ka Lei Maile Ali‘i: He Aloha ‘Āina ‘Oia‘i‘o
By Tammy Haili‘ōpua Baker, Kaʻulakauikeaokea Krug, Kaipulaumakaniolono, and Lily Hiʻilani Kim-Dela Cruz Okimura on June 15, 2021E ō e Hawai‘i nui Kuauli, ka moku o Keawe, E ō e Maui nui a Kama, nā hono a‘o Pi‘ilani, E ō e Kaho‘olawe, Kanaloa Moku, E ō e …
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Blog Post?
By Rae Kuruhara on October 20, 2020[All of these gorgeous illustrations are by the author, and reproduced with permission and gratitude.] It seems uncanny that the latest graphic memoir by legendary cartoonist Adrian Tomine, The …
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The Spiral’s Path
By Julia Arnade-Colwill on September 24, 2020The men at Hālawa Correctional Facility taught me about hope. Last summer, I found myself back home in Hawaiʻi for a brief period before I was to return to college …
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An “Elsewhere” We Call Home
By Tatiana Kalaniopua Young, PhD on July 31, 2020Kamaʻāina: Child of the Land (2020), a short film by Kimi Howl Lee, centers on the story of a gender-queer teenage character named Mahina played by Malia Kamalani Soon. Mahina …
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Love Letters to Community: Necessary Gestures
By Joy Enomoto on May 16, 2020This is a letter of aloha and kanikau for my kupuna kualua, Keohokalole and my kupuna kuakahi, Annie Keoho and all of my kūpuna whose lives were forever changed by …
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