celeste_noelani | My tweets

Tue, 15:46: Everything takes so bleeping long. #amwriting
Tue, 17:29: Keep putting off the call I need to make to provide documentation of my Hawaiian ancestry because the whole thing is so triggery.
Tue, 17:31: I 100% feel like I'm not Hawaiian enough, mostly because my parents (mostly Mom) raised me to be a good white girl.
Tue, 17:32: Like, on my birth certificate, my parents listed me and my siblings as "Caucasian" even though we are primarily Pacific Islander.
Tue, 17:34: I mean, we for sure have Caucasian in us and I'm not sad, etc that it's listed. I just wish my Kanaka Maoli & Chamorro parts were, too.
Tue, 17:36: But my mom, from whom I get all my Chamorro ancestry, mostly introduced herself as a Swedish lady because being white was better.
Tue, 17:37: I remember when my mom went to send us to Kamehameha Explorations and it was a big to-do to get us in because of our birth certificates.
Tue, 17:38: She had to have my Kupuna go in with her certificate, and my dad's, and mine, to show the lineage.
Tue, 17:39: I had to prove I was Hawaiian enough to learn about the ancestry I had been learning about my entire life. I remember being really ashamed.
Tue, 17:40: And now here I am having to do the exact same thing to prove my Hawaiian-ness and I am feeling really...hurt...by the whole thing. ??

Tue, 17:42: All I can do is remember that to my Kupuna, I *was* Hawaiian. Island girl through and through. And so, that is who I am. To myself.
Tue, 17:42: Everything else can go hang. Still, I need to make the call and do the paperwork and add my name to the Native Hawaiian roll call.
Tue, 17:44: Which, I mean, don't get me started on the concept of blood quantum. Gah.
Wed, 09:51: #WINNING https://t.co/MbD5XLtEb7
Wed, 10:06: LOVE this: "[W]e are only just beginning to see the first fruits of restoring our wholeness as a lāhui." https://t.co/pwfj4YKFlL

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