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Join us for a lesson in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, the indigenous language of Hawai’i. 🌺

'ahi | yellowfin tuna

The ʻahi is a symbol of abundance. Their presence reflects the generosity of the ocean, often watched over by the akua (god) of fishing.

he'e | octopus

For many ʻohana (families), the heʻe is also recognized as an ʻaumakua, an ancestral guardian that offers protection and guidance.

mōlī | Laysan albatross

The Hawaiian mōlī (Laysan albatross) is seen as a messenger, carrying ʻike (knowledge) across great distances.

In Hawaiian culture, many ocean animals are revered as aumakua, ancestral guardians that protect the ‘ohana (family). Their presence is deeply embedded in moʻolelo (stories) and often symbolizes virtues like strength, endurance, and resilience. This profound appreciation represents a spiritual interconnectedness and respect between humans and the sea.

Mahalo (thanks to) Marlo Lualemana (@marlolualemana on IG) for sharing her knowledge and culture.

No matter the words we use, there’s wonder in ocean life, and caring for it helps us all. 🐟🐙🐦

#monterey bay aquarium #aanhpi #learning through language #ocean 'ohana

Happy Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month!

We’re marking May with a JSTOR Daily roundup bringing together stories on history, culture, migration, art, and everyday life. These pieces draw on scholarship to offer context and insight into the lives and experiences of communities with roots in Asia and the Pacific.

You’ll find pieces on Thai American communities in Los Angeles, the legacy of the Chinese Exclusion Act, Filipino and Japanese American experiences shaped by labor and migration, Vietnamese migration and policy, and Native Hawaiian education and culture. There are also pieces on Pacific Islander histories and cultural expression, alongside work on music, literature, and food shaping identity across generations.

See the full roundup.

Image: Wen-ti Tsen, David Fichter, and community members. Chinatown Community Mural, Boston, MA, 1986. Timothy Drescher: Community Murals.

#jstor #jstor daily #aanhpi #aanhpi heritage month #aapi heritage month #asian american history #pacific islander history #hawaiian history

“I speak to you my elders my ancestors my gods and goddesses

With a bloody mouth and broken hands

I can’t speak your language

I don’t know my own peoples dances food songs art etc

I don’t know my culture traditions and customs

My mind and my mouth can’t understand

Even if my heart and soul does

They made sure of that

With those haole sanctioned schools,”

No’eau Hoata/Heiani Hoata

Excerpt from my spoken word poetry anthology books about bipoc qtipoc and disabled native issues. It’s about being a disabled native, a displaced disconnected state side diaspora, being an Asian Native, a child of a transracial adoptee, & about being a QTIPOC queer and trans third gender Indigenous person of color.

More of the art context and research of the spoken word poetry anthology books about bipoc qtipoc and disabled native issues is linked into the bio and pinned on my native intros for social media The rest of the cut and uncut versions can be found there

"If we held a moment of silence For every Native, Arctic Native, and Hawaiian and Indigenous Pasifika child who died in a residential and boarding school. We would be silent for 134 or more years." "No matter what the numbers are." "There arent supposed to be graveyards at schools." Ever."

Klanada always talks about truth and reconciliation for some fucking reason.

“There are at least 973 American Indian, Alaska Arctic Native, and Native Hawaiian and Indigenous other Pasifika children died while attending schools in the system. The Department acknowledges that the actual number of children who died while attending Indian boarding schools is likely greater.” “The investigation also confirms that there are at least 74 marked or unmarked burial sites at 65 of the schools. One initiative proposed in the report is to identify and repatriate the remains of children who never returned home from the schools.”

The investigation into abuse and mistreatment of Native children at the boarding schools for more than a century proposes $23 billion in fun

Remember that there is what we call haole sanctioned boarding schools in Pasifika Oceania Where they beat you for speaking your Indigenous te reo, praying to your gods goddesses and demigods, or practicing any facet of your Indigenous Pasifika culture It was a facet of cultural genocide in our island homes

There is a reason why many of our ancestors elders and kin cant speak our te reo Indigenous lingua franca Or spoke in in hush quiet behind close doors out of fear of being beaten again Or in shame The fucking settler state engineered it this way

“In 1985, Hawaii had just 32 Kanaka Maoli kids under 18 who could speak Hawaiian. Not because it died out naturally. A law banned it from every classroom in 1896. By 1902, zero schools taught it.

In 1983, a few parents opened ’Aha Punana Leo, literally “the language nest.” They could barely convince four families to enroll.

Today 27,000+ people speak Hawaiian at home. They immersed a generation in it. This time, the language didn’t go under.”

Does Oceania Pasifika Have a separate day for our Haole sanctioned schools they built in Moana? Or is it also included in September 30th?

“That’s the same throughline as everything else here. Why Wôpanâak had to be rebuilt from paper. Why Hawaiian fell to 32 fluent kids by 1985. Why elders have gone quiet. Same policy, local variations, across an ocean. Language and tattoo revival isn’t nostalgia sitting beside that history. It’s the direct answer to it.”

“Aotearoa is a clear case. Sir James Henare a respected Māori leader, recalled being sent to cut his own switch from the bush. Then beaten with it for speaking te reo Māori at school. Told plainly that English was the price of earning a living. By the 1980s, fewer than 1 in 5 Māori were native speakers of their own language.”

The boarding schools in Oceania was a facet of cultural genocide in our island homes and a big reason why language spirituality and tattoo revival is important to us as Indigenous culture language and story keepers Land back Death to all settler states GTFO our land

Since their first arrival in the new world a number of religious entities began the project of converting Indigenous Peoples to Christianity. This undertaking grew in structure and purpose, especially between 1831 and 1969. When the governing officials of Canada joined with monotheistic churches to create and operate the residential school system.

"In the 40s and 50s the Canadian Department of Pensions and National Health performed nutritional experiments on already malnourished Indigenous children in residential schools. The information was later used to create Canada’s food guide." Everything in Klanada begins with settler violence

On September 30th many people across Klanata Turtle Island wear bright orange t-shirts to honour and raise awareness of the thousands of Indigenous children who were sent to residential and boarding schools.

Children were forced from their homes, endured horrific torture, subjected to deliberate suppression of their cultures and languages. Many never returned to their families.

On Orange Shirt Day, we also remember the Survivors of these institutions and the long-standing effects on generations of First Nations, Métis, Native Hawaiian and other Indigenous Pasifika, and Inuit and other Arctic Native Peoples.

Why orange

“When Phyllis Webstad was a little girl, she was forced to attend a residential school in Williams Lake, British Columbia. On the first day of school, she proudly wore an orange shirt her grandmother had given her. The residential school staff stripped her of her belongings, cut her hair, and took away her clothes, including her orange shirt.” Phyllis is one of the thousands of children between the ages of four to 16 who attended residential schools in Canada between the 1830s and 1996.

The schools were operated by the Canadian government and church organizations with an aim to eliminate Indigenous languages, cultures, and practices. A deliberate act of colonialism and assimilation.

Fuck Amerikkka Fuck Kkklanada and Fuck yt Australia also Death to ALL settler states

“We were children.” “Roman Catholic church in downtown Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The graffiti was done on the same day Cowesses First Nation, announced the discovery of 751 unmarked graves from schools funded by the federal government and operated by the Roman Catholic Church.”

“The Dept. of the Interior’s Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative report, released 2024, confirmed at least 973 American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Pasifika children died in schools run or supported by the federal government. From 1819–1969, across 417 schools in 37 states/territories.”

“The report also found at least 74 marked or unmarked burial sites at 65 of those schools, and states plainly the true death toll is almost certainly higher, since record-keeping then was inconsistent or deliberately absent.”

Yea I did JD now

He’s Taiwanese-American because of personal bias but also because 7-Eleven

favorite headcanon for him so far is that no one (except Veronica) can pronounce his legal name, which is why he goes by JD

#heathers #jason dean #heathers 1989 #heathers movie #heathers musical #heathers the musical #jason dean heathers #jd heathers #heathers fandom #heathers fanart #heathers costumes #heathers 1988 #asian #asian american #aanhpi #More detailed tags this time :)#🧯

ON THE NOTE OF ASIAN AMERICAN, NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH:

Textbooks:

this is a link to a UCLA textbook on Asain Americans and civil rights.

this is a link to a UCLA textbook, the most comprehensive one of Asian American and Pacific Islander histories and perspectives

Orientalism by Edward Said internet archive link

Essays:

Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex by Kimberlé Crenshaw (not an AANHPI author, but her work is incredibly relevant everywhere!!)

A Personal History of Islamaphobia in the US by Lamya H.

What’s In a Name? And How this Author Reclaimed Hers by Shay Kauwe

Reimagining Masculinity by Ocean Vuong

Poetry:

Not Even This by Ocean Vuong

Short Stories:

Stitched to Skin like Family Is by Nghi Vo

#ask game time! list creative works (especially nonfic) by AANHPI authors and then tag 5 people /JOKE I AM JOKING #aanhpi #guys :3 i made a list :3 #go look at these guys :D yippee!!

Sapphic Books for AANHPI Heritage Month

Have you read any of these sapphic AANHPI books? Which of these sapphic AANHPI books are on your tbr?

Share this post to add more queer books to your tbr during AANHPI Heritage Month!

Happy Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (AANHPI Heritage Month)! This month celebrates about 40 distinct groups originating from the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Observing AANHPI Heritage Month by reading queer books is an opportunity to understand and appreciate diverse cultures and experiences you may feel unfamiliar with. For me, a bisexual Palestinian in a sapphic relationship, these stories have an extra special place in my heart. I wish I'd had them growing up.

These queer stories help deconstruct the false binary that being queer and Asian are mutually exclusive (as a queer Palestinian, I'm often told that my own people will "throw me off rooftops," which is just lovely). Queer books also help normalize queer identities, experiences, and relationships, which is becoming increasingly important as book banning becomes more common. These books are more than entertainment for some of us; they're a form of validation, comfort, even acting as a lifeline when we feel alone. Finding these books can help queer readers find acceptance, even between pages.

I know the more I type, the less you read, but please don't ignore these books, ESPECIALLY sapphic books as achillian books are fetishized and sapphic stories are thrown to the wayside. Instead, please consider sharing this list of sapphic books for AANHPI Heritage Month, adding sapphic books to your tbr, and celebrating these diverse + queer voices yearround.

Queer Books for AANHPI Heritage Month

Hi! Here's a list of some Asian-Led/Starring or Asian Story Short Films and Movies that you should add to your watchlist for AANHPI heritage month. ✽

(NOTE: Please recommended additions, especially for PI and NH films. There are a couple of queer short films here. To all the queer Asians out there still seeking fellowship: you'll find it.)

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AANHPI Heritage Month ‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚. Asian American ‧ Native Hawaiian ‧ Pacific Islander

May has been recognized as Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month since 1991, when it started as a single week of observance in the United States. Over time, the name has undergone changes to be more inclusive, while also shining a light on the very obvious flaws of lumping so many different cultural and ethnic groups under a single umbrella.

I decided to write some posts in 2024 commemorating AANHPI Heritage Month, and I like to think it was well-received and also somewhat insightful. I enjoyed the experience, on a very personal level, and promised myself to do something similar this year.

#AANHPI #AAPI #aanhpi heritage month #aapi heritage month #ffxiv screenshots #ffxiv gpose #gposers #duskwight #elezen #ffxiv oc #asian coded OCs #yein my beloved #wanted to do something special to commemorate #cultural observance months no longer recognized federally #and the hate toward us are no longer just thinly veiled #but fuck 'em we're gonna celebrate and educate anyway #another iron TED talk incoming lol #iron poses #iron also rambles

Hi! Here's a list of some Asian-Led/Starring or Asian Story Short Films and Movies that you should add to your watchlist for AANHPI heritage month. ✽

(NOTE: Please recommended additions, especially for PI and NH films. There are a couple of queer short films here. To all the queer Asians out there still seeking fellowship: you'll find it.)

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