celeste_noelani | My tweets

Mon, 12:06: RT @yeelummak: Shouldn't a movie with Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, and John Krasinski be called "Hi" and set in the Midwest?…
Mon, 12:08: "Aloha is 20 trailers in search of a movie." http://t.co/Au3sXzBYOd #AlohaMovie
Mon, 15:58: RT @hehawaiiau: What 1/4 Hawaiian 1/4 Chinese Caucasian people from Hawaii really look like #realAllisonNg #realAloha @hehawaiiau http://t.…
Mon, 17:14: Isn't it funny that the #AlohaMovie is bombing out at the box office while #SanAndreasMovie, starring an actual Pacific Islander, is #1?
Mon, 17:15: And by funny, I mean totally fucking predictable because audiences aren't as narrow minded as Hollywood keeps pretending we are.
Mon, 17:21: Also, you can't fall back on "they just cast the best actors" and not have it highlight Hollywood's atrocious lack of diversity. #AlohaMovie
Mon, 17:22: That's the entire hullabaloo surrounding Emma Stone's casting as a hapa wahine. Why aren't we in Hollywood in the first place? #AlohaMovie
Mon, 17:24: Because if there really was any real depth of diverse WOC who regularly got solid, lead roles? We'd have no complaints. #AlohaMovie
Mon, 17:25: Instead, we are passed over for lead roles so we can't prove ourselves as box office draws, so we are passed over... #AlohaMovie
Mon, 17:28: And then you cast Emma Stone as a mixed race WOC and pretend we're hating on HER when we raise our very valid concerns. #AlohaMovie

Mon, 17:31: Hollywood really needs so sit in a corner and think about what it's done. Why is it so "risky" to cast WOC in lead roles? #AlohaMovie
Mon, 17:36: I mean, do you really want to align yourselves with the folks who shat themselves when Amandla Stenberg was cast as Rue? #AlohaMovie
Mon, 18:12: RT @suleikhasnyder: We're told the more we minimize our cultural markers, the more "palatable" we make our Otherness, the more marketable o…
Mon, 19:29: As an indigenous person, it's really difficult to see ugly FB posts about immigrants ruining everything without saying "YEAH YOU DO."
Mon, 19:29: I mean, I don't at all think that, but when I get angry like that it's hard to not just fall back on being a vindictive, angry POS.
Mon, 19:32: I wish I had good comebacks for posts like that, but I know one liners aren't the answer to ugly FB. Dammit.
Mon, 20:46: You guys, my trip home is turning into a big family gathering with cousins coming in from neighbor islands. I am seriously beside myself.
Mon, 20:48: I am completely overwhelmed, mostly because jerkbrain has been telling me for years that nobody wanted to see me. Jerkbrain, you are WRONG.
Mon, 20:49: I sent letters and emails to cousins just to test the waters. And what do you know, the waters prove themselves to be 100% aloha.
Mon, 20:51: My sister and I get to be with our godmothers. Maybe we'll do some young me / old me pictures. Lol.

Mon, 20:54: Now it's...oh shit, where are we going to put everybody? The Yum Yum Trees have all closed down, so we can't relive that tradition, lol.
Tue, 11:10: Celebrate every success loudly and fully. Always know there is more to be done.
Tue, 11:24: RT @amaditalks: Mike Huckabee says that he should've pretended to be trans in order to be a sexual predator. This says more about him than …
Tue, 11:39: RT @tithenai: Would love to see people thoughtfully discussing Kameron Hurley's "I don't Care About Your MFA" http://t.co/dteXhvnQ9S

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