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I’ve also run out of words to keep expressing my disgust with Israel and every international body that has failed Palestine. All that’s left is - Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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The ‘if Ariel can be black, Nani can be white’ argument is so funny lmaooo that is a MERMAID ?? Kānaka actually exist ??💀
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“Even in death, women are not safe”
Every single man who searched her name should be tracked down and put in prison.
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My grandma passed in 2008. Today we moved her so she could be buried again with my papa’s body. I had to help “wash” her and so I sat with my elderly aunty and watched the whole process and I just wanted to note it down.
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5. Also, while my aunty was washing my nana, she spoke so much love onto her and kept saying “you poor thing, you’ve been laying down so long” or saying how pretty she is even after death. I loved that.
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1. We removed her piece by piece from her original resting place. I’ve never seen a decayed body before but knowing it was my nana made me emotional. Her bones were carefully taken out and laid onto new white material and carried into our house.
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Anyways, that’s all. Just wanted to note down the experience !
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4. Also just wanted to note that Samoan people have such a confronting (?) attitude around the dead - idk how to describe it. It’s not that they’re sad, they’re just straight forward about it.
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Bones will stay wet for a long time. So the way she did it, was by massaging her bones and the remnant pieces of skin with fagu’u samoa to “fa’aaulelei” her. As she was massaging, she said the fagu’u smelt so lovely and strong and it meant my nana was loving it.
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2. Once she was in the house, we had a fine siapo ready to wrap her after she was washed. When they originally said she would be washed, I thought they meant they would literally clean her with water and soap but my aunty, who is so deeply knowledgeable in tradition and culture -
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Said it’s a point of contention amongst many because some will wash it with water but if you do that, you wash away the remnant skin and some of the bones and it will make their spirit hard to walk around. Washing it that way will also make her cold in the other world because the
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3. As each of her bones were ‘cleaned’ they were carefully placed on the siapo- no parts were left behind, even the little pieces were pooled together and placed inside. She was then carefully wrapped and will be placed with my papa on his day.
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The only white boy that matters
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The Aboriginal community must be tired of having to explain to Americans their right to identify as “black” in the context of Australia simply bc Americans can’t fathom beyond their oceans.
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Thread for Pacific Islander girls (or whoever needs to hear it).
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When I came here
I’m happy to cuddle you
When you go to bed without cuddle me
I feel like
Why? Why she do this to me?
- Asuelu
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The problem isn’t the church or the scriptures, the problem is the interpretations and the way people weaponise it.
What's a church opinion that will get you like this?
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Anyway here’s something more positive for the TL. Sis killed it 👏🏽
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Islander girls are the backbone of their family. I hope y’all have a great day.
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In my whole 22 years of life I’ve never heard my dad complain about working but today he softly said “I hope you two graduate uni soon, I’m tired of working”. So next year I’m gonna retweet this saying I’m graduating next year. I’m speaking this into existence 💅🏽
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Y’all have never been in Asian households and it shows. Majority of Asian cultures don’t even allow outside shoes in their homes and wear slippers at all times inside. They among the cleanest I know. Keep your xenophobia off my TL.
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Do you know how powerful you are when your siblings are your best friends? You reallly won’t need any more ride or dies outside of them. No need to explain family dynamics, if you can’t vent to one you can vent to another, trust and love always on 💯 etc. etc.
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This is my last graduation post but I just wanted to quote tweet this tweet I made years back. It took me a lot longer to complete my degree but my dad was still so happy, he couldn’t stop holding me and crying 🥲💗
In my whole 22 years of life I’ve never heard my dad complain about working but today he softly said “I hope you two graduate uni soon, I’m tired of working”. So next year I’m gonna retweet this saying I’m graduating next year. I’m speaking this into existence 💅🏽
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Not to be that guy, but if you stand for Palestine, you should understand why we remain adamant about not holidaying to Bali in solidarity with West Papua.
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“We have to go and be responsible and hold the burden of the faces of Pacific Islanders and tell them what our leaders have done to them today. How do we go home and tell them the result, that the world has sold us out?”
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When I was younger I used to think being a freelance journalist would be the coolest thing ever and even when I was starting uni and they’d ask me what I wanted to do with my degree I’d say freelancing anyways guess who just became a freelance writer for Buzzfeed
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4. Your natural facial features, natural hair and natural bodies are beautiful. We come from warrior women and to be built like them and to look like them is a blessing. Don’t let Eurocentric ideals fool you into thinking any of it is ugly.
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Our faifeau said “who’s being persecuted right now in the world?” And the kids said “Palestine!!” So confidently 💀 then he said “but who started it?” And because I had already spoken to my kids about it they said “Israel!!” 💀
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9 months of carrying a baby. Years of loving and raising him. Watching first steps, first words, first days of school. Dreams of future graduations, partners to meet, weddings, grandkids... all gone in minutes over stupid beef. So much has been taken from that family 😭
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My sisters boyfriend asked for a break yesterday and today she took over a suitcase and cleared all her shit from his place and told him it’s over with no hesitation. If that isn’t a sign of what the women in my family are like then idk what is lol
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2. We owe our families a lot but we don’t owe them our whole lives. Make time to know yourself as a person separate from your family and your village. It’s important for when you’re away from home and makes standing on your own two feet easier.
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When we talk about people who influenced and inspired me, Sosefina really at the very top of that list. Teen me was so in loveee 🤩 I hope she’s loving the most blessed and loved life ✨
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A reminder that attaining a degree doesn’t always mean you’re the smartest in the room. So many people aren’t book smart but know more of the world because of their own lived experiences and the things they’ve witnessed. If university isn’t your calling, then so be it.
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As a Pacific Islander what’s an opinion on us that would have you in this position
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No one:
Islanders: we’re so sorry, we are but a humble family with nothing to give but we have tried our best to put what little we have together and hope you can accept this small token of $150000000000 and these 100 mats of the finest quality 😔
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There’s ways to ask what something is without being disrespectful or trying to have the next hit tweet by making someone’s body and culture the butt of the joke. You know what you were doing with the wording so it’s weird that you’re acting dense at people being offended.
Are they intentionally tattooing their love handles? What is this
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Is the South Pacific and Oceania in the room with us ?
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Should’ve stopped your tweet at ‘not a Pacific Islander’, deleted then written it down and then saved it for when there’s a thread for ‘not Pacific Islanders’
@DaughterOfSamoa
Not a Pacific Islander but I'll shoot
Most Pacific Islands wouldn't be around till the next century. Y'all better have an escape plan.
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Him: I wanna be more than friends
Me: like... my brother in Christ ?
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Don’t talk shit about fruit pickers because a lot of y’all could never do that kind of labour. Our parents made it look easy.
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My sisters arguing with her boyfriend because he showers everytime he goes to see his best friend but doesn’t do anything when he sees her and she’s asking if they eat each other’s asses when they see each other 💀 is this what relationships are
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Pasifika girls need workshops on how not to be mean to the guys they like 💀
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Why y’all like Australia so much? Have you seen the way they treat their indigenous people?
Why ya'll like New Zealand so much? Have you seen the way they treat their indigenous people?
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6. Not knowing your culture or your language doesn’t make you any less a part of your motherlands BUT knowing both will help with feeling included and help with the identity crisis that alot of the diaspora go through.
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10. You’re all so sexy fr. Congratulations on being born Pacific Islander 💞💞
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No, Bad Girls Club: Pacific Islands 🤣
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1. I know it can be hard to balance being a girl growing up in this western world and growing up in your respective PI cultures but I promise it’s possible. You just gotta draw the lines for yourself between the two.
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Trades should be respected and promoted as equally as tertiary education and jobs that require degrees because they’re legitimate careers and can pay just as well AND you don’t have to pay with your soul to become certified.
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Parents love the idea of you getting an education until that education debunks everything they taught you to believe.
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Omg you’re kidding 😭😭
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I can’t believe I woke up to Samoan food being slandered by the people that eat horse😔
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Sometimes I think back on past versions of myself and cringe deep in my bones.
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5. For your own peace of mind, practice drawing boundaries between you and your family. Don’t let disrespect carry on even if it’s your parents because it will embed in your mind that if you can take disrespect from these people you love, everyone else can disrespect you too.
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This is so embarrassing especially knowing the context of the land they’re standing on 😭
The Pro-Palestine Protest was meant to be at 2pm today..but this haka scared them away and they rescheduled for Sunday..No to Anti-Semetic behaviour in NZ.
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8. Learn to be soft. So much of our lives we’re raised around questionable examples of love and taught to harden ourselves. Take the time to learn how to be soft. To love softly so that we can nurture it when times are tough rather than have it collapse on us.
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Can’t believe our downfall was an apple ... not even some pork ribs of something
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I know islanders think collectively but it is important that you find and know who you are as an individual.
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9. THERAPY. Hot girls go to therapy. There’s so many traumas one carries even from when they were young that affects adulthood. Take time to unlearn and re-educate.
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Can we start a poly girls and their makeup looks thread please. Y’all are so fine 😍
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I can’t have a podcast called Pasifika Profiles and not have Pasifika representation. Right now my interviewees are majority Polynesian so if you know any Micronesian and Melanesian artists, creatives, influencers, athletes or just anyone doing cool things out here let me know✨
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3. Sex is normal. Wanting, thinking, talking about sex is normal. It’s not conversations a lot of us have had with our parents but changing the way we regard sex will help us know what’s right, what feels good and makes us more comfortable discussing it with partners.
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Fuck Bali. You can’t be Pro Land Back, or Pro Palestine and not stand on a free West Papua - they are literally our people. It makes zero sense to be staunch about the causes of other communities but not put your own at the forefront. Fuck Bali. Fuck Bali. Fuck Bali.
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They were beautiful but have you seen desi girls go all out ? There’s no competition lol
I cant believe there’d be a day where non desi ppl slayed in sari but THEY ATE and left no crumbs dare I say better than most desi celebs I’ve seen
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The Islander girl pipeline of hardening themselves to survive and then having to relearn vulnerability and being soft.
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My papa passed last week and even though I wanted to hold it close to my heart for as long as possible, I also want to speak on my love for him. It’s been chaos at home and I haven’t even had time to process or mourn yet so I just wanted to share some memories of him.
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If you could cast anyone as Moana in the live action remake, who would it be ? My pick would be one of the actresses from Vai - Agnes Pele. Like on looks alone, she would make a great Moana!
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A girl and her islander man sat next to me (her man between us) while we waited for our orders and this girl leaned all the way back to stare at me 😭 I hate these kind of palagi girls. No one wants your man sis!!
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