Category: Aloha Aina
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Synergies of fire and water
This is an expanded/edited version of something I wrote in September 2021 to be translated into Italian as “Eco-logiche Indigene” for the Italian print magazine menelique issue on ecologies. The hook for the article I wrote for the Fall/Winter 2021 menelique issue on “ecologie” was framed around an XR action against WWF that August, days…
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Dedication + Dreams/Manifestation => Love + Generosity + Fulfillment
This *new and improved* blog is meant to be a semi-academic musing to my previous research, as well as a community space to ponder new strategies and plans for what is to come next. This first post was mostly written in late March and added to what was to be my new blog in early…
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Q&A “WHY I PROTEST” on IMPOLITIKAL from June 10, 2017
Q&A | WHY I PROTEST: KARIN LOUISE HERMES I did another Q&A for IMPOLITIKAL with Evelyn Marsters. I lost track of how many times I’ve stood in front of the Brandenburg Gate protesting with a sign (or without one), maybe it’s good I have some photographic proof and keep souvenir signs! We’re exploring the deep reasons…
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Listen to me on the radio – “Talking Feminisms” #10 ‘From Mauna Kea To Standing Rock’ on reboot.fm on December 3, 2016
Through the #NoDAPL Berlin Stands with Standing Rock group, I was more involved in local direct action and solidarity events over the past months. Aside from yesterday’s speech and the march with Wasser ist Leben Berlin in February, where I led the bilingual chants with a megaphone, I was on the radio in December, for real.…
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Making a Nation and Faking a State: Aloha ‘Aina and Sovereignty E(A)ducation in Hawai‘i
Clearly, I have been doing a really bad job at updating this blog, so it’s about time that I link the articles and talks of mine that came out over the past 15 months. This is my actual first academic publication in a journal and the original can be downloaded here or from my academia.edu.…
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A New EAducation: Interview with Ku’uipo Freitas at The Hawaii Independent from March 10, 2016
This is the interview I did with Ku’uipo Freitas about Mauna Kea and sovereignty, which I had passed along to The Hawaii Independent after the nuisance with the university student newspaper here. On the bright side, thanks to them being insistent on a full interview and that annoyance of me rescinding their ownership on the material,…
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Complicit in colonial crimes
The more I thought about it this weekend, the more it became clearer, I had just barely saved a disastrous situation that may have a had a domino effect on any of my further work. That student newspaper article I mentioned in the previous media bias post, it was a train-wreck that had my name…
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Facing Future – Reclaiming Past
“If just for a day our king and queen Would visit all these islands and saw everything How would they feel about the changes of our land Could you just imagine if they were around And saw highways on their sacred grounds How would they feel about this modern city life? Tears would come from…
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Reflections on 5 weeks in Hawai’i
And now … back in Berlin. Down to freezing point on some days this week, missing my brand-new gloves I bought in August, but with a second-hand cozy jacket bought on my first day back. Since my jet lag wasn’t over as fast as I thought it was the first 3 days, I was up…
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Back in the 808
Right now I’m back in Hawai’i visiting, introducing myself and my proposed project to the community it concerns, and feeling the motivation and inspiration by many to ease me into this work when I return to Berlin. It’s a rainy day in Mānoa with the effects of all the hurricanes (Kilo, Ignacio, Jimena) passing by…
Metaphors & Metaphysics 