This is infuriating.

Does this author even know that hula and siva afi ("fire-knives") come from 2 different cultures?

Hula is Hawaiian, siva afi is Samoan.

Or did she really pull up to PCC once and find herself qualified to use our culture as a cheap backdrop for profit? https://twitter.com/jordanmarigreen/status/1299113246977413124">https://twitter.com/jordanmar...

As this has gotten more attention & more egregious actions have come to light, I want to add a few things.

1) Agents, do better. Are you gatekeepers for quality or gatekeepers for privilege?
2) Our dances are sacred, not some hobby we "trade in"
3) Oceania is not a monolith

4) When our languages were banned/stolen from us (by YOUR white ancestors), dance was one of the last ways we could carry & tell our stories/histories.

Sit with that for a moment. Can you handle it? Sit w/ the weight of it? When we dance, do you even know what we& #39;re saying?

5) Even our dances were tainted thru the influence of Christian missionaries, who deemed the practice as "savage." You absolutely CANNOT talk about siva afi as a male dominated sport w/o talking about the role colonization and christianity had in that.

6) The trope of having an Indigenous woman fall in love with a white man is problematic, esp w/ the predatory industry of tourism in the backdrop

7) Hula is not only for women. Siva afi is not only for men. The gender disparities here exist for reasons ur not equipped to unpack.

Sharing kanaka maoli voices here on the real damage & harm this kind of work does to our community.

Please read, it& #39;s important that people learn & understand from US

On the blatant ignorance of our traditional dances & the love/care we have for them: https://twitter.com/nanibrowneyes/status/1299798616576372737?s=20">https://twitter.com/nanibrown...

This is perhaps the most disturbing.

The author literally made mood boards out of Native Hawaiian trauma/abuse for a "character aesthetic." Our pain is not a prop. Our pain is not for sale.

Pls read all the replies by @DazCherreh in this thread as well: https://twitter.com/pomaika__i/status/1299620531788890113?s=20">https://twitter.com/pomaika__...