Ocean Lani 🇲🇵🇬🇺

Very underrated and slept on, truly!

The world has yet to catch up on all the nation’s of the South Pacific and Melanesians but we getting there

Literally 70% of my teaching emails involves telling students where to find stuff

Thank you for the clear labeling.

Now if all academics would follow suit I can decide who I want to read and whose work I can safely ignore since it’s produced by theftbots

My brother and I arguing under the eclipse moon about the differences between
1. a blood moon vs
2. a lunar eclipse vs
3. a blood moon-lunar eclipse
😂😂😂

To read later

'Appalled': Territory politicians urge High Court appeal over Jake Danby hit-and-run sentence Warning: With the permission of family, the following article contains the name of an Indigenous person who has died, as well as content and language some readers may find distressingTwo senior Northe...

nit.com.au/03-03-2026/2...
It's off to the high court.
Danby's days are numbered anyway but the nepotism in NT legal is aparthied in action

Being able to accept when you’re wrong.

I finally downloaded my data and deleted my substack last week. Weight off my shoulders!

I hardly used it (bc I'm not publishing lately) but had 8 ppl signed up for updates 🤣 whose emails I exported 😆😅 ty friends

Oh wait jk it was my teens and late teens/20s 😂

Ok so not much "heavy metal" rocker though!

I grew up in the punk era & dad loves rock music, but I always connected with diff genres within (light screamo? Alternative, acoustic, punk, 70s, 80s, 90s) and of course, 2000s punk which became the pop-punk era of early 2010s. That was my 20s.

Nobody ever expects it when I tell them I was a rocker in the 2000's 😂 but its true.

I was going through some old boxes of mine and I ran into this little blast from the past.

Take action!

Typographic design that says: “There is nothing preemptive or preventative about bombing a country that had zero plans to attack you.” –Rania Khalek

“There is nothing preemptive or preventative about bombing a country that had zero plans to attack you.”
–Rania Khalek (@raniaakhalek.bsky.social)

YKW, I will email this person and let them know. I'm sure they'll appreciate it. Lets hope.

I can understand if it's a regular article, but for a Master's thesis that is actively adopting decolonial lenses and Pasifika methodologies and citing Chamorro scholarship, shoddy work to not get basic facts correct.

I read research papers to quiet my mind before bed, but this has me miffed so I'll put it down for now but may pick it up again..or may not, all things considered. I have manyyyy papers downloaded and usually get back to them way later, and not often 😅

🥺 Tanu, you're amazing that will carry me through the week! Fa'afetai 😭😭

Funny part is CSP's article cited argued "scholars need to be critical of reductionist representations of the Pacific and should, instead, highlight the complexities of Pacific agency, complexity, and subjectivity in order to think more fully about [this era of human induced climate change].." 🙃

Went to the map at the back, well there we were on their map with our Indigenous names of Låguas yan Gåni! There was even a Chamoru diaspora scholar cited (Craig Santos Perez!) but nope...that was disappointing. Particularly this being a well-researched Master's thesis. The Polycentrism, I beg.

Was reading a wonderful Master's thesis covering young people's perspectives in the Pacific by a great emerging (Euro yt) scholar who was mentored by Pacific Islander scholars from Polynesia.

Got to page 5, introduction to their definition of "Pacific Islands", saw the Marianas weren't mentioned 🫠

Story of my life: I committed to too many things. Reminiscent of when I line up to the fiesta table and I take a bit too much of everything and can't finish it all without sacrificing health 😭😩 then when any part requires multiple steps I lose focus & motivation to execute. STORY OF MY LIFE FORREAL.

Aww happy birthday, yall (and you especially) are so cuteeee 🥹✨️

So a reminder on the first of the month! I would love to have a book of nice memories of my time with students. Only two people have responded so far.

It's okay if folks are too busy or aren't interested in doing so. Please share with people I may not be in contact with?

Positive Covid test

URGENT NATIVE #MUTUALAID💸💕

Tested positive for Covid. I can't afford to not be working. I need $100/day for room/food. Preemptively asking because I know I'm going to sleep for at least 3 days. Anything helps. Mvto.

CA $fdanger
Vnmo/PP @francesdanger

Side view of Cocoa, a dark brown bunny, loafing on a rug

Top view of Cocoa loafing on a rug

Happy Bunday!

One of the reasons I talk about extractavist companies mining in Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Sámi lands (mainly Norway/Sweden), several African countries, etc is because we are fighting the same battle. It isn't just the US/Canada.