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Articles by Terisa Siagatonu
The Only Place in the U.S. with Zero COVID Deaths
Terisa Siagatonu is a queer, Indigenous, Sāmoan poet. A Kundiman Fellow, she lives on unceded Ohlone Territory temporarily known as the Bay Area. sign up for poem-a-day Receive a new poem in your inbox daily Email Address About This Poem “I wrote this poem from the place where most of my poems originate: in the urgent, tender truth of what U.S. imperialism, militarism, and colonization have done to my country, my people, and the world’s imaginings of who Sāmoans (and Pacific Islanders) are.
The Price I Pay For(ever) My Culture
Welcome to Autostraddle’s APIA Heritage Month Series, about carrying our cultures from past to future. For Aunty Hauani her words, my final resting place one day: “upon the survival of the Pacific depends the survival of the world.” We, the biggest region on the planet. The oldest ocean. The heart, if this world ever had one. How dare anyone look at a map with Oceania sliced in half hanging on the edges of it and say: I know what the world looks like. For everything that fractured us.
Moana Means Home: A Contrapuntal
The team behind Moana has taken great care to respect the cultures of the Pacific Islands that inspired the film, and we regret that the Maui costume has offended some. — Disney, Inc. someone will touch the Earth once, I wanted my own soil. tried to drown my ankles in myself. again. Daughter of Oceania wanting me home. my skin is sacred ground. always want to take a white girl's skin I cried so hard, until I became a boat I never want to be lost at high tide.
Atlas by Terisa Siagatonu
If you open up any atlas and take a look at a map of the world, almost every single one of them slices the Pacific Ocean in half. To the human eye, every map centers all the land masses on Earth creating the illusion that water can handle the butchering and be pushed to the edges of the world. As if the Pacific Ocean isn’t the largest body living today, beating the loudest heart, the reason why land has a pulse in the first place.
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