We’ve been keeping this news pretty quiet this time around because we’ve been feeling the desire as an ‘ohana to protect this intimate and tender celebration of new life. But as Malia begins this transition through the third trimester it felt Pono to share publicly that 2023 was our last year as a family of 3. We are excited to announce that in the cusp between March and April of this year we will welcome a new aloha ‘āina to the world. May they be fed by the ‘Ike and nourishment of our ancestors and be fortified by the empowering aloha of this lāhui & community near and far. May they and their generation know a Palestine and Hawai’i that is free. ❤️🖤💚 We are surrounded by abundance and have everything our little ohana truly needs. But if you feel called to honor this upcoming arrival with a makana we’ve got a registry in the link in my bio. And most of all we LOVE preloved clothes ❤️
We’ve been keeping this news pretty quiet this time around because we’ve been feeling the desire as an ‘ohana to protect this intimate and tender celebration of new life. But as Malia begins this transition through the third trimester it felt Pono to share publicly that 2023 was our last year as a family of 3. We are excited to announce that in the cusp between March and April of this year we will welcome a new aloha ‘āina to the world. May they be fed by the ‘Ike and nourishment of our ancestors and be fortified by the empowering aloha of this lāhui & community near and far. May they and their generation know a Palestine and Hawai’i that is free. ❤️🖤💚 We are surrounded by abundance and have everything our little ohana truly needs. But if you feel called to honor this upcoming arrival with a makana we’ve got a registry in the link in my bio. And most of all we LOVE preloved clothes ❤️
Leialohaanohoanaʻapiʻapi Edward Kealakaluheaokaipalaoa Osorio was born on ka piko o wākea, March 19th 2024 at 645am. Leialoha emerged in this wao under the protection of our kupuna with a big and powerful voice. At almost 3 weeks early he was still 8lbs 2oz and 19.5 inches long 😳. May the gods bless Malia and her little kino and big spirit for carrying this little ancestor into the world. Like all of our little ancestors, he has brought us ‘Ike and important instructions. I pule that we heed them 🖤🐋
35 weeks and ready for for things to get wild 🌀 Kaleiwohi can’t wait to meet her new best friend. And I can’t believe my whole heart can fit in one little picture.
Malia Osorio. Mother, artist, and kia’i. Theres no one else I’d want to make daylight with. I am so grateful you chose me to ride out this wild life with. Thank you for being a safe place for my full self. These kids are so lucky to have you as their mommy and I am so lucky to co-parent beside you. I promise to keep catching these kids germs so I can tell you exactly what they’re feeling as long as you promise not to get tired of caring for our revolving viruses 😂😂. Thank goodness for your incredible immune system. You are the glue that holds this immune weak family together. I’m yours forever ❤️. 📸 @pachamamacreative
So queer & so cute 🖤.
The only way to spend the “4th of you-lie” is to clown on these annexationists. Even better to do it among our lāhui and ‘ohana. Blessed to raise these keiki within this longstanding tradition of resisting American imperialism and empire. Until the very last aloha aina … Oh, and fuck Thurston and all his friends past and present 🫣🖤✊🏾
The only way to spend the “4th of you-lie” is to clown on these annexationists. Even better to do it among our lāhui and ‘ohana. Blessed to raise these keiki within this longstanding tradition of resisting American imperialism and empire. Until the very last aloha aina … Oh, and fuck Thurston and all his friends past and present 🫣🖤✊🏾
The only way to spend the “4th of you-lie” is to clown on these annexationists. Even better to do it among our lāhui and ‘ohana. Blessed to raise these keiki within this longstanding tradition of resisting American imperialism and empire. Until the very last aloha aina … Oh, and fuck Thurston and all his friends past and present 🫣🖤✊🏾
Kumu Haunani-Kay Trask October 3, 1949 – July 3, 2021 Long live the aumakua 🖤
So grateful to have these moments captured by our dear friend @marpho88. What a gift to honor the family we were before we became a family of four ❤️. If you’re on Moku o Keawe, Hit up @pachamamacreative for all your photography needs ❤️
Proud partner moment. Today @malialia was awarded a prestigious arts award at UHmānoa, the Matt Smith Award in Printmaking. Malia is a typical artist activist. She prefers not to be the center of attention, and rather fade into the background while pumping out critical activist art/posters to honor and support our movement work. But I am really thrilled that her artistic excellence and passion is being recognized. Malia went back to school in the middle of a global pandemic, and over the last 3 years developed her art making and critique as a dean lists student all while growing, birthing, and raising two incredibly beautiful children. I know in the end, Kaleiwohi and Leialoha will be our most precious creations. But it is wonderful that along the way we will be surrounded and inspired by malia’s beautiful and powerful art. I love you @malialia, we are so proud of you. Stop telling people this isn’t a big deal, cuz it is. You are my favorite artist.
Proud partner moment. Today @malialia was awarded a prestigious arts award at UHmānoa, the Matt Smith Award in Printmaking. Malia is a typical artist activist. She prefers not to be the center of attention, and rather fade into the background while pumping out critical activist art/posters to honor and support our movement work. But I am really thrilled that her artistic excellence and passion is being recognized. Malia went back to school in the middle of a global pandemic, and over the last 3 years developed her art making and critique as a dean lists student all while growing, birthing, and raising two incredibly beautiful children. I know in the end, Kaleiwohi and Leialoha will be our most precious creations. But it is wonderful that along the way we will be surrounded and inspired by malia’s beautiful and powerful art. I love you @malialia, we are so proud of you. Stop telling people this isn’t a big deal, cuz it is. You are my favorite artist.
[Freedom] Dreams come true 🖤✊🏾 What a gift to stand with and share conversation and music with this radical crew. Feeling blessed and inspired.
This little one seems bigger every day. I am so excited to watch her grow into her big sisterhood. Any day now 🖤❤️🖤
Coming soon to @emergencemagazine: From Emmy- and Peabody-nominated filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Emergence Magazine presents “Aloha ‘Āina,” the second film in our new Shifting Landscapes Film Series. What does it mean to love the land? For acclaimed Kanaka Maoli poet and activist Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio (@jamaicaosorio), this love is held in ‘aloha ‘āina,’ a Hawaiian concept that teaches if we are connected to one another, it is only because we are connected to the land which nourishes us both. Laying bare the remaking of Hawai‘i from a place where people and land have lived in kinship for thousands of years, to a place colonized with projections of pleasure and profit, Jamaica summons the mana of aloha ‘āina. At the forefront of the fight to prevent a thirty-meter telescope from being constructed at the summit of Mauna Kea she speaks verses that command love and responsibility for any land that has fed and held us. (Check out & follow @emergencemagazine for more info & to stay updated on the release of the film)
I’m very excited to announce that I will be teaching POLS 777: Decolonial Futures this fall. This semester im reimagining this course around three major themes: “Black radical traditions and abolitionists futures,” “the future is Land Back,” and “None of us are free until Palestine is free.” Ultimately the course was designed with inspiration from all the incredible resistance, resurgence, and world building we have witnessed over the last half century. This class is open to any UHM graduate students who are interested in traditions (and futures) of critical resistance / resurgence, and any haumāna committed to intersectional liberatory praxis. Registration for Fall semester opens April 15th. Mahalo to my love @malialia for the flier.
@dechintacentre solidarity gathering, going home day We join the last of our comrades in leaving Yellowknife today. Its bittersweet to depart an aina and peoples who opened themselves wide to care for us. Who fed, sheltered, and offered us ceremony at every turn. But it is also Pono for us to return to the aina and peoples who have carried our kuleana in our absence. Where I was once full of grief, all I feel is gratitude. Mahalo for the recharge and redirection. I return home recommitted to the people and places I’ve always loved & to you. Until next time…Perhaps in the winters night 🖤 Ps: when @gwitchinaabekwe says we’re going to the legendary “Gold Range” western bar to two step with the aunties— join her and the crew. It’s worth it 🫣😅
@dechintacentre solidarity gathering, going home day We join the last of our comrades in leaving Yellowknife today. Its bittersweet to depart an aina and peoples who opened themselves wide to care for us. Who fed, sheltered, and offered us ceremony at every turn. But it is also Pono for us to return to the aina and peoples who have carried our kuleana in our absence. Where I was once full of grief, all I feel is gratitude. Mahalo for the recharge and redirection. I return home recommitted to the people and places I’ve always loved & to you. Until next time…Perhaps in the winters night 🖤 Ps: when @gwitchinaabekwe says we’re going to the legendary “Gold Range” western bar to two step with the aunties— join her and the crew. It’s worth it 🫣😅
@dechintacentre solidarity gathering, going home day We join the last of our comrades in leaving Yellowknife today. Its bittersweet to depart an aina and peoples who opened themselves wide to care for us. Who fed, sheltered, and offered us ceremony at every turn. But it is also Pono for us to return to the aina and peoples who have carried our kuleana in our absence. Where I was once full of grief, all I feel is gratitude. Mahalo for the recharge and redirection. I return home recommitted to the people and places I’ve always loved & to you. Until next time…Perhaps in the winters night 🖤 Ps: when @gwitchinaabekwe says we’re going to the legendary “Gold Range” western bar to two step with the aunties— join her and the crew. It’s worth it 🫣😅
@dechintacentre solidarity gathering, going home day We join the last of our comrades in leaving Yellowknife today. Its bittersweet to depart an aina and peoples who opened themselves wide to care for us. Who fed, sheltered, and offered us ceremony at every turn. But it is also Pono for us to return to the aina and peoples who have carried our kuleana in our absence. Where I was once full of grief, all I feel is gratitude. Mahalo for the recharge and redirection. I return home recommitted to the people and places I’ve always loved & to you. Until next time…Perhaps in the winters night 🖤 Ps: when @gwitchinaabekwe says we’re going to the legendary “Gold Range” western bar to two step with the aunties— join her and the crew. It’s worth it 🫣😅
@dechintacentre solidarity gathering, going home day We join the last of our comrades in leaving Yellowknife today. Its bittersweet to depart an aina and peoples who opened themselves wide to care for us. Who fed, sheltered, and offered us ceremony at every turn. But it is also Pono for us to return to the aina and peoples who have carried our kuleana in our absence. Where I was once full of grief, all I feel is gratitude. Mahalo for the recharge and redirection. I return home recommitted to the people and places I’ve always loved & to you. Until next time…Perhaps in the winters night 🖤 Ps: when @gwitchinaabekwe says we’re going to the legendary “Gold Range” western bar to two step with the aunties— join her and the crew. It’s worth it 🫣😅
@dechintacentre solidarity gathering, going home day We join the last of our comrades in leaving Yellowknife today. Its bittersweet to depart an aina and peoples who opened themselves wide to care for us. Who fed, sheltered, and offered us ceremony at every turn. But it is also Pono for us to return to the aina and peoples who have carried our kuleana in our absence. Where I was once full of grief, all I feel is gratitude. Mahalo for the recharge and redirection. I return home recommitted to the people and places I’ve always loved & to you. Until next time…Perhaps in the winters night 🖤 Ps: when @gwitchinaabekwe says we’re going to the legendary “Gold Range” western bar to two step with the aunties— join her and the crew. It’s worth it 🫣😅
Stoked to share that @akeakahikina and I are co-editing Hūlili’s next special issue, No Ka Pono o ka Māhui. We are seeking pieces across the academic and creative spectrums— from scholarly to sexy and everything in-between. don’t be shy. Please share widely with your networks of colleagues, co-creators, collaborators, and students. We are particularly exited to highlight the work of kanaka Maoli and ‘ōiwi (indigenous) Oceania ❤️. Hit me up if you have questions. Submit at bit.ly/hulilispecialissue
