Category: Hawai’i
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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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UHM Creative Writing conference: Words@Mānoa 2022
These are some free writing exercises I did for the UHM Creative Writing workshop, April 9, 2022. Sha Ongelungel hosted a session on “Indigenous Power and Solidarity,” which influenced the framing of our upcoming interview, as well as the trajectory of the first few posts here, thanks to the great moderation by leilani portillo. “Indigenous…
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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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My speech from the “Gala für Alle” protest against Ivanka Trump at W20
On February 17, The Coalition supported “Berlin Stands with Standing Rock” and “Wasser ist Leben Berlin” to march down Friedrichstraße and call for the divestment of BayernLB and Deutsche Bank from the Dakota Access Pipeline, which runs through Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and Treaty land in North Dakota. A few days later BayernLB announced that…
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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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Media narrative and bias
I’m doing a bad job at keeping this blog up to date, but I have so many works in progress that I would rather not have too many inconclusive tales on here or just me rambling. This falls closer into the second category. I was ghostwriting and blogging for Sacred Mauna Kea (my username here…