123 years ago today, the US illegally stole our Kingdom, lowered our hae Hawai’i, & invaded our islands with armed military based at the front of ʻIolani Palace. 123 years today, we are still opposing these illegal occupiers & protesting military leases on our sacred wahi pana.

I mean, the U.S. supports the genocide of Palestinians so it’s evident they don’t value lives of people across the world or its civilians. I mean, not the U.S. doing what the U.S. does with global wars and civil wars. Talk about the U.S. perpetuating its colonial legacy.

Starving ppl is an act of war & is so colonial history coded. It’s a literal war crime according to international law. However, seeing as the U.S. continues to get away w it, whether it’s mass starvation or illegal occupation, I guess contemporary genocide gets a pass too huh?

Everyone: finish your PhD! You’re almost done, you’re in your dissertation already! Me: how? I literally begged for revisions for almost two months and when I escalated it to the dept, I’m met with hostility when all I asked for was support to keep going.

I know I’m a PhD candidate, but I’m looking to explore switching universities. Anyone got any leads on doing so? Anyone want a PhD student? I’m willing to start this all over again if I have to.

The police need to get tf outta Waianae if they’re gonna go around actively targeting Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.

I passed my comps and am now officially a PhD candidate!!! 💃🏽 #dazcherrehtodoctahcherreh

I just finished and submitted my comp exams. I want someone to swaddle me, pat my butt, wipe away my tears and tell me everything’s gonna be okay 😭

I don’t use a reference manager because I like to stress myself out manually inputting them 😅

My family honored me with a star quilt, I was officially accepted into a Doctoral Program. Friends I am so excited. Its literally because of the love and care I was given from you all.

Hui kākou! My friends keiki is missing and I’m putting out a kahea to help us find Kaiʻea! They was last seen Nānākuli! Please kōkua!

Damn y’all. It’s kinda nice being funemployed! I get to build up my consulting business, talk stories all day, and focus on school. It’s kinda nice!

Enough of your love life. What of your hate life? Hating anybody new lately?

Everyone kept telling me to apply for KS funding. So I did. Again. 9.5 years of college education and I have to be the one Kanaka ʻōiwi who has NEVER received any scholarship support from KS.

Can't wait until this PhD is finished. I'm going to start a band and travel the Pacific, nfg it's gonna be so much fun

My beautiful, Mvskoke friend Jas gifted me this beautiful ribbon skirt and I decided to bring out the kihei I made as we engage in cultural protocol for a hui global Indigenous health here in beautiful Aotearoa #globalIndigenousHealth

I mean, kinda late though because I been spilling the beans and going through the coconut wireless to shot off some alarms aye 😂

At the end of the day, this is all white people’s fault.

Anything with “Indigenous,” “Native Hawaiian,” “cultural,” “culturally responsive,” or “community” are all being scrubbed & attacked rn. Anyone who thinks these cuts to funding was a good idea has literally supported the obliteration of Indigenous & Native Hawaiian health.

FUCK white supremacy FUCK white supremacy FUCK white supremacy FUCK white supremacy

Even then, most MDs are NOT great at providing patient education. I literally had to explain to my Dad that our bodies naturally produce insulin & that we need insulin to work like a key & door to process sugars, but his needs WD-40 bc it’s not working like it’s supposed to.