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Trump administration considers adding 36 countries to travel ban list including three Pacific Island countries - Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

Study up on imagineNATIVE's 25th anniversary! The 2025 Festival Catalogue is available now on Issuu. Print copies will be available on-site at the in-person Festival in Toronto from June 3-8, 2025 with pay-what-you-can pricing. 📖 issuu.com/imagineNATIVE/…

THE TIMBERWOLVES ARE INTO THE WESTERN CONFERENCE FINALS FOR THE SECOND STRAIGHT SEASON 🐺🔥

🐟 Pacific leaders are united: Ending harmful fisheries subsidies is key to stopping overfishing and protecting ocean ecosystems. The future of tuna—and our oceans—depends on it. pewtrsts.org/4m2LS7l

These are the four pieces for which I won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. All published in 2024. Blessings to the souls of 31 members of my family who were killed in one air strike in 2023. Blessings to the souls of my four first cousins, two of whom were killed with their husbands and their children. Blessings to the soul of my great aunt, Fatima, whose “corpse” remains under the rubble of her house since October 2024. Blessings to the graves of my grandparents, refugee from Yaffa, who I will never find. Blessings to the souls of my students who got killed while looking for food and firewood. To the school where I studied and where I taught, to the library that I founded and to which I added one poetry book before 2023. Blessings to many more, many more. I’m praying for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and JUSTICE and PEACE! 🍓🍓🍓🍓

American Samoa poised to lead U.S push for ocean mineral extraction pacificislandtimes.com/post/american-…

No good thing lasts, this week, the Samoan "cheehoo" was lost to the corporate world forever. "Now it’s dead. Killed by the most ironic of things: an AI company," writes The Spinoff’s Madeleine Chapman. 🔗 shorturl.at/RgsfT

Just finished teaching a new undergrad "humanities research lab" course called The Black Panther Party & the Politics of Decolonization. Students are finalizing original primary-source research projects now. Here's the playlist I made to accompany the syllabus (1 song per week).

Agents of French imperialism in the Pacific co-opting key Pacific studies texts for their own purpose, through supposed care for the oceans and environment. Who is "we"? Epeli Hauʻofa's book "We Are the Ocean" is a reference in Pacific studies. This is insidious.

oh this is a *must* attend

#EARTHDAY: The Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice uses science, research, data, and facts in our work. However, having the science, research data and facts is not enough to achieve transformative and lasting change. We must marry them to action. That's our Environmental and Climate Justice Movement. @BullardCenter @EJHBCU #HBCU #HBCUBuzz #HBCUalum #ActonClimate

SCOTUS to Hear Arguments in Trump’s Attempt to End Birthright Citizenship democracynow.org/2025/4/18/head…

The honest B or C student, submitting essays filled with awkward constructions, malapropisms, earnest, if failed or surface-y arguments--a surprise hero of the present age.

Proactive organizing 💯💯💯

Happy to share the latest discussion paper by Romitesh Kant, Mereoni Chung and myself entitled, "The Pacific Ocean of peace: a promise or a paradox?" published as open access in the Australian Journal of International Affairs DOI: doi-org.virtual.anu.edu.au/10.1080/103577…

@siada_7 😭😭😭

Being in pacific islands studies is so frustrating sometimes because a lot of people think it’s Polynesian studies.

West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory. theguardian.com/world/2025/mar…

Nuclear justice in Ma'ohi Nui/French Polynesia

Free webinar from @UMNews Multispecies Planetary Commitments and Research: Perspectives from ethnographers, scientists, and educators, Apr 28, 2025, 10:30am-12pm. 5 panelists. Registration required. Also in-person component of program in Minnesota. cla.umn.edu/liberal-arts-e…