My giant #poetry column is now live @msmagazine.com! Featuring @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social @theoceanisgay.bsky.social @jxzzhndz.bsky.social @taylorbyas.bsky.social @aditimachado.bsky.social @terisasiagatonu.bsky.social @catherineweiss.bsky.social & more! msmagazine.com/2025/04/21/r...

Every time I speak as an organizer/lecturer/educator, someone asks me, "How do you not lose hope?" My answer is always that although I despair, every day I come to know more and more people in the struggle for justice. There are more of us every day.

On Valentine’s Day in 1779, Hawaiians killed colonizer Captain Cook upon his 3rd intrusive visit to Hawai’i. His invasive exploration of Australia & our islands in Oceania (Tahiti, Aotearoa, Kanaky, etc) is what triggered British colonization in the Pacific. Thank you Hawaiians 🙏🏽💘🌊

Devastated to see the news about Nikki Giovanni. Seeing so many poets’ tributes to her and their personal stories about how she impacted their lives and careers just shows what kind of poet and person she was. May she rest in peace, and may her family find the love and support they need ❤️

from the suicide card in the asian american lit review's open in an emergency tarot deck: "...This card chose you as a sign to pause and feel everything, rather than end. You're left to interpret what the rest of the body is doing while you're still here. Alive." @terisasiagatonu.bsky.social

BREAKING: Autonomous anti-genocide activists bring the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to a grinding halt after blockading the McDonald’s float for a second year in a row. “Those grinches who thinks they can disrupt the parade: it’s not going to happen,” Mayor Eric Adams said yesterday.

Moana 2 is out in theaters today but not yet here in Tahiti. Until then: a contrapuntal poem I wrote that was published in Poetry Magazine after the 1st movie when Disney pulled a racist brown skin tatted costume off the shelves. Each column is its own poem, then read across: 4 poems total 🌊

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

Hi 👋 I put together a starter pack to spotlight Pacific Islander authors for anyone wanting to discover and uplift PI literature. Say hi & follow along to celebrate PI! And if you're a Pacific Islander book creator, reach out to be included :) go.bsky.app/HFSy2tG #books #authors #pasifika

I hope that the people who are usually not politically engaged but worked really hard to get Harris elected wake up soon and realize that they are not the only ones who are tired of a struggle that is full of defeat & in fact they could learn about surviving from the leftists they mark as enemies

The moment I started feeling viscerally angry at my peers amidst the elections, I immediately pulled out this book to re-read and re-ground. Even the first chapter alone helped me to snap out of it and stay focused at the work ahead. Right now, the e-book is free at @haymarketbooks.bsky.social

100% 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

A liberation you can’t sweat out.

Delighted to share a new project that @KTeaiwa and I have been working on for the past year - a new six-volume history of Oceania (Australia and the Pacific) - 60,000 years: culturalhistoryofoceania.blog

Alofa tele atu to our Māori aiga and all who are gathered with them today on the hīkoi to Parliament. All of our ancestors across each of our islands in Oceania hold you up as the indigenous people of Aotearoa and know that what’s best for Māori is best for all of us. 🖤🤍❤️ #ToitūTeTiriti

One month into my 2 month writing residency in Mā’ohi Nui (French Polynesia). 1 month spent in Mo’orea (where I’m headed next) & 1 in Huahine: home to the most famous Tahitian author, my literary hero Chantal Spitz. I’ll cherish the immense time I’ve shared w/ her & let it fuel my writing even more.

K I'm here now what?

(Im)patiently waiting for Roquin to make their bluesky account

generational reciprocity is one of my favorite things about my pacific islander community. people still do nice things for my family because of my parents or my grandparents and sometimes even my great-grandparents

Pākehā/white people in Aotearoa who are in opposition of Māori sovereignty and who keep clogging every #ToitūTeTiriti post with claims that Māori aren’t indigenous to Aotearoa feel unsettled because they’re settlers and their blood knows it, even if they refuse to accept it.

found this one a few days ago go.bsky.app/SNvMPk3

Looking for an answer too

Where is the starter pack of Palestine/folks organizing around and talking about Palestine

I redecorated my page, come on in / take your shoes off first please

I hope this leads to some valuable discovery: "In the lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court, the daughters — along with the Malcolm X estate — claimed that the agencies were aware of and were involved in the assassination plot and failed to stop the killing." apnews.com/article/malc...

we’ll be four horsemen deep into the apocalypse and still going to work

It’s so refreshing to spend time in a feed that’s isn’t being artificially pumped full of right wing propaganda all the time

Not me already having to block someone from following me on here 🫥

this is what escaping twitter felt like

hiii👋🏼 i’m manuia, i’m a ya author and books is all i ever talk about 😆 just hopped over from the sinking ship that is twitter (rip 🛳️) & excited to meet new faces and reconnect with mutuals! ✨ #authors #writingcommunity

If I post things here that you saw on Twitter just a minute ago, just roll with it lol

😭😭 I’m going to tell my kids that this was the vā our ancestors were talking about 🫀🫀

Terisa Siagatonu joined the party 🥳 @terisasiagatonu.bsky.social

I feel like I’m over here scrolling to kill time as I wait for my friends to arrive to the function

So close! #LandBack

How it feels to be in Mā’ohi Nui, watching the hīkoi and every video of Māori resistance right now 🖤🤍❤️

When the founding treaty was drafted & signed, it was written out in English & in the Māori language. The English version has been interpreted as the Māori ceding the land & sovereignty to the UK monarch. The Māori language merely says they join the UK & retain the land & sovereignty.

Invalid handle is a beautiful name for a girl 😍

Test test test, 1 2 1 2 Ia ora na 👋🏽 from the island of Huahine in Mā’ohi Nui (French Polynesia). Here for two months on a writing residency. Here on Bluesky up until it gets weird (don’t make it weird)