Kūkā Kīkī: A Podcast for Queer(ed) Kānaka

Hosts: Kaʻiminaʻauao Kahikina (Host, PhD student, Scholar & Artist) & Ākea Kahikina (Producer, Writer, Director) Guest: Izik (Singer-songwriter, Musician) Works Featured: Reflections on No ka Pono o ka Māhūi and Izik’s album Kōwā Theme: Liberation, celebration, and the collective voice of the māhūi Description: To close the inaugural season of Kūkā Kīkī, co-hosts Ākea and Kaʻiminaʻauao Kah...

Host: Ākea Kahikina (Producer, Writer, Director) Guests: Jamaica Heolimelekalani Osorio (Scholar, Educator, Activist) & Leināʻala Mahi (Poet, Photographer, Activist) Works Featured: No ka Pono o ka Māhūi and An Honor Theme: Art, activism, and aloha ʻāina as the work of wāhine koa Description: Host Ākea Kahikina sits with co-editor Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio and poet Leināʻala Mahi to talk...

Host: Kaʻiminaʻauao Kahikina (Host, PhD student, Scholar & Artist) Guest: Maile Arvin (Scholar, Historian, Educator) Work Featured: Practicing Pilina on Incarcerated ʻĀina: The Power of Queer Relationships of Kanaka Maoli Girls at the Kawailoa Training School Theme: Reclaiming intimacy and care under confinement Description: Host Kaʻimi Kahikina chats with historian Maile Arvin to discuss rese...

Host: Kaʻiminaʻauao Kahikina (Host, PhD student, Scholar & Artist) Guest: Lani Teves (Scholar, Educator, Musician) Work Featured: Regulating Hawaiian Sexualities: Challenging Colonial Imposition to Reclaim Autonomy Theme: How colonial legal frameworks constrict pilina and desire Description: Host Kaʻimi Kahikina sits with scholar Lani Teves to unpack how 19th- and 20th-century laws in Hawaiʻi...

Host:  Kaʻiminaʻauao Kahikina (Host, PhD student, Scholar & Artist) Guests:  Noʻu Revilla (Poet, Scholar, Educator) & Kamakani Albano (Poet, Educator) Works Featured: poi mouth and Re-membering Māhū is a Love Letter to Creation Theme: Water as sanctuary, mentorship, and transformation Description: Poets Noʻu Revilla and Kamakani Albano join host Kaʻimi Kahikina to talk story about water as...

Host: Kaʻiminaʻauao Kahikina (Host, PhD student, Scholar & Artist)Guest: Kamalani Johnson (Scholar, Translator, Educator)Work Featured: He Moʻolelo mai nā Kūpuna: Ancestral Lessons of Liberation in J. W. H. I. Kihe’s “Kaao Hooniua Puuwai no Ka-Miki”Theme: Hoʻopāpā, pilina, and the ancestral ethics of consentListen & Learn:What might ancestral ethics of pilina teach us about honoring bounda...

Hosts: Kaʻiminaʻauao Kahikina (Host, PhD student, Scholar & Artist) & Ākea Kahikina (Producer, Writer, Director) Description: Co-creators Ākea and Kaʻiminaʻauao Kahikina talk story about how Kūkā Kīkī came to be. They discuss why they chose to feature “No ka Pono o ka Māhūi,” the forthcoming Hūlili special issue co-edited by Ākea and Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, and how the podcast was...

Host: Kaʻiminaʻauao Kahikina Guests: Tatiana Kalaniʻōpua Young, Sami Akuna, and Phylesha Brown-Acton Works Featured: Four Principles of Māhū Leadership and On MVPFAFF+ Theme: Māhū and QTPI become leaders by sitting at the feet of our elders Description: This episode bridges Hawaiʻi, Niue, Aotearoa, and the greater Moananuiākea as Kaʻimi sits with māhū and QTPI leaders Tatiana Kalaniʻōpua Young, Sa...

Host:  Kaʻiminaʻauao Kahikina Guest:  Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu Work Featured:   “Ahuwale ka paekiʻi: He lei moana nō ia”  (an oral history) Theme:   Māhū is not an identity—it is a kūlana and a kuleana. Description: In this episode of  Kūkā Kīkī , host Kaʻiminaʻauao Kahikina sits with Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu to reflect on  Ahuwale ka paekiʻi , the oral history Kaʻimi recorded of Hina. Together, they...