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honestly this time of quarantine makes me jealous of people who study communities they& #39;re not part of or have no ties to. must be nice to write about people without experiencing the violence you& #39;re supposed to always write & read about.
As Setsu Shigematsu & Keith Camacho argue, the tendency to see the Pacific as a place to be explored & thus taken over is also prevalent in Asian Am spaces while claiming solidarity under the legally constructed AAPI umbrella.
and honestly, Guåhan gets less visbility than Hawai& #39;i for better or worse, but also there are folks who aren& #39;t from both these places that have done ethical work in relation to organizers. they& #39;re just a lot more rare than common.
Also there are ton of people who are from communities and do unethical work. So yeah, it& #39;s more like is community protocol and work part of folks& #39; research ethics? Cause honestly, I wouldn& #39;t want to make $$$ out of my own or anybody else& #39;s oppression.
I also always get called in by my CHamoru & Guam Filipinx mentors when I& #39;m getting too ahead of myself and not listening to what& #39;s happening in Guåhan or the Philippines. Feedback can be scary, but the deep relations & trust that are earned through action are worth it.
I& #39;m writing this thread mainly in response to the structure of academia that rewards this rather than individual people. I am also grateful for scholars & writers that try their best to listen and amplify people& #39;s voices rather than commodify their experiences.
And to be clear, I decided to go into academia because I want to TEACH. I want to be in a place where I can help folks deconstruct things when they& #39;re at the very brink of the educational system, just like I was when I was depressed & lost till I met Prof. Wu in undergrad.
