celeste_noelani | My tweets

Tue, 15:06: RT @KaimanaPine: Mele of #AlohaAina and solidarity fill the streets of downtown #Honolulu #KuKiaiMauna LIVE at @OiwiTV http://t.co/qSinhlFU…
Tue, 15:16: Lovely time chatting up a new mom and other friendly women at the swimming pool, and then we all got naked together. Oh, locker rooms.
Tue, 15:18: I also inadvertently shut down a well meaning dude trying to mansplain to me about bringing my own padlock. He was really apologetic.
Tue, 15:19: I did not get naked with that guy, though.
Tue, 15:21: RT @CivilBeat: #maunaKea supporters arrive at #govhawaii office http://t.co/xQMqohqK3k
Tue, 15:42: I wrote this and maybe you relate? I dunno. I Have Never Once LET Mental Illness Keep Me From Anything http://t.co/LcpFTYOYCO
Tue, 17:20: I would do yoga if the instructor used these http://t.co/ZUOKd5Vuyp
Wed, 08:17: RT @MotherUnadorned: I Have Never Once LET Mental Illness Keep Me From Anything https://t.co/KWtY1ziZ1b via @runningnekkid
Wed, 11:29: Ugh I don't even know how to write these thoughts about Mauna Kea and the TMT. I don't know how to share my manaʻo without cussing.
Wed, 11:30: To be fair, I do think that a few well placed cuss words are necessary in times like these.

Wed, 11:35: But I'm trying to write an actual THING with THOUGHTS in them, because this is so important to me.
Wed, 11:35: We're told that if we protest the new telescope on Mauna Kea, we're backwards ignorant anti-science hordes.
Wed, 11:36: As if you can't love astronomy, science, and human knowledge and be reverent and respectful towards actual human beings.
Wed, 11:38: Mauna Kea is our Kahoʻolawe. It is our stand against those who would ignore our place in our own homeland. This is our kuleana.
Wed, 11:40: There is SO much work to be done, all over our ʻāina. Mauna Kea, Pōhakuloa, Waikīkī. If we don't protect them, who will?
Wed, 11:41: The people who took our homes away from us in the first place and turned our farmlands into resorts? Yeah that sounds legit.
Wed, 11:43: So basically, fuck you if you think that putting a telescope on a sacred mountain is more important to humanity than taking care of our own.
Wed, 11:44: Kanaka Maoli are brilliant scientists who voyaged to the islands using the stars we are now so desperately trying to see.
Wed, 11:45: We ARE scientists, you fucking fuck.
Wed, 11:46: Also, how many out of commission telescopes are on Mauna Kea right now, even as this new one is being built?

Wed, 11:46: Didn't your mother teach you to put away your toys when you were pau with them? Don't leave rubbish on my mountain.
Wed, 11:48: So give me astronomy. Give me the stars. But also give me a thriving Kanaka Maoli population, NOT landless, in poverty, incarcerated.
Wed, 11:49: Don't take away my farmland, my fishing grounds, and then wonder why I am unemployed and homeless.
Wed, 11:50: When I tell you my ancestors' bones are in the mountain and you need to halt your construction, don't call me a problem. I'm not a problem.
Wed, 11:50: Your construction practices that cannot account for human relationship to the land...THAT is the problem.
Wed, 11:52: Would we build a telescope on Stonehenge?
Wed, 11:53: Also, tourist, if you don't give a shit about Kanaka Maoli's struggle for our rights, then you don't love Hawaiʻi like you claim you do.
Wed, 11:55: Which, fine, you aren't obligated to care. But at least own that. Don't tell me how much you love Hawaiʻi when what you really mean...
Wed, 11:56: Is that we are here for your consumption. We, our culture and our land, are a commodity that you buy with your frequent flyer miles.
Wed, 11:58: Well shit, I spent all my writing time ranting on twitter again. But maybe now that I've gotten out some of the rage, I can actually write.

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