“To be māhū is a blessing,” reminds Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu. “To be māhū is greater than the gender binary—male, female, those are the ordinary people. I can see the world from two different sides.”
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📸 Mahina Choy-Ellis.
My first order of business as a gay Polynesian uncle is to not let my niece grow up thinking “Landslide” is an original song by Josh Tatofi. This island girl will know Stevie Nicks!!!
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@KevinDayton808 Journal of David Samwell, the voyage's Welsh naval surgeon: "The chief who first struck Captain Cook with the club, was called Karimano-craha (Kalaimanokahoowaha*), but I did not know him by his name." *Was Kana‘ina's full inoa, as identified by Fornander.
Kana‘ina, the Hawaiian chief who struck the first blow to Capt. Cook on February 14, 1779. A ship’s journal recounts: “Kaneena [sic] especially, whose portrait Mr. Webber has drawn, was one of the finest men I ever saw.” Happy Valentine’s Day to this man.