Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio will join a virtual launch event with Native Books on Friday, October 1 for a discussion of her new book, REMEMBERING OUR INTIMACIES.
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For far too long, Asian Americans have been overlooked in conversations on climate change and the natural world. In a Yale School of Climate Change Communication report that purports to reveal which racial groups care most about climate change, for instance, the results for Asian Americans were unavailable, raising concerns over the low sample size. However, the inability to retrieve data on Asian communities whether because of language barriers or questions over which ethnic groups are considered Asian American reveals a more insidious concern: that Asian Americans have always been an afterthought in the national imagination.
NOW THROUGH JUNE 30: 2021 SUNDANCE INSTITUTE INDIGENOUS SHORT FILM TOUR View this post on Instagram A post shared by Northwest Film Forum (@nwfilmforum) For the next month and a half, Northwest Film Forum is streaming the 2021 Sundance Institute Indigenous Short Film tour. You can now watch the 85-minute program composed of seven shorts directed by Indigenous filmmakers from recent Sundance Film Festivals for COMPLETELY FREE on NWFF's website. You'll be treated to.
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Polynesian slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio.
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This is the Way We Rise, a poetic short about Polynesian slam poet Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio that recently screened as part of the Sundance Film Festival. Jamaica is the daughter of Jon Osorio, Dean of Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at the University of Hawaiʻi, an author and renowned songwriter who composed one of my three favorite Aloha “State” songs, “Hawaiian Soul,” about the fabled Native activist George Helm.
It seems that Jamaica has picked up not only her talented dad’s way with words but also his commitment to the struggle for the liberation of the Kānaka Maoli (Indigenous people of Hawaiʻi). In