Nā Mana Wai is our online and email publication. We publish prose, poetry, photo essays, interviews, videos, audio recordings, illustrations, and other media we haven’t mentioned or perhaps yet imagined. Nā Mana Wai—our many sources of wealth—honors the diversity of this paeʻāina. Our stories enrich each others lives, challenge our perspectives, and deepen our connections to one another.
In this space, we seek to honor the abundant humanities community here in Hawaiʻi, which we can often find in unexpected places. How do we respond to the questions and stories that most challenge us? How do we reach across difference and construct tangible connection that helps build a more inclusive, more resilient community? Telling and sharing our own stories—listening to stories that are not our own—working to be in real conversation with our own communities and others offers a beginning.
E komo mai . . .
Try Think Returns to Halawa Correctional Facility and Women’s Community Correctional Center After COVID
– By Rob Chang on July 23, 2021
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, 2021
Blog Post?
– By Rae Kuruhara on October 20, 2020
Puʻuhonua: A Closer Look at Kimi Howl Lee’s Kamaʻāina
– By Lyz Soto on October 19, 2020
The Spiral’s Path
– By Julia Arnade-Colwill on September 24, 2020
An “Elsewhere” We Call Home
– By Tatiana Kalaniopua Young, PhD on July 31, 2020
Love Letters to Community: Necessary Gestures
– By Joy Enomoto on May 16, 2020
Love Letters to Community: New Worlds into Being
– By Lyz Soto on April 10, 2020
A Letter to You in COVID-19
– By Lyz Soto on April 3, 2020
Aloha to our National Humanities Conference Guests
– By Aiko Yamashiro on March 7, 2020
Lei Lāʻī: Opening Remarks for the 2019 National Humanities Conference
– By Aiko Yamashiro on March 7, 2020
Visitor Guide for the National Humanities Conference
– By Lyz Soto on March 6, 2020
Private: The Death of Humanities and Other Nonsensical(s)
– By Lyz Soto on December 17, 2019
What is the humanities in Hawaiʻi?
– By Lyz Soto on December 17, 2019