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"Nā Wahine Koa: ��ɫ������վian Women for Sovereignty and Demilitarization"

**please note that this is scheduled for TUESDAY instead of our regular Thursday time Nā Wāhine Koa: ��ɫ������վian Women for Sovereignty and Demilitarization documents the political lives of Moanike‘ala Akaka, Maxine Kahaulelio, Terrilee Keko‘olani-Raymond, and Loretta Ritte, four wāhine koa who emerged as movement organizers in the 1970s. While their lives and political work took different paths, they have maintained strong commitments to aloha ʻāina throughout their lives. Combining life writing, photos, political testimonies and other ephemera, the book offers a vivid picture of women in ��ɫ������վian movements for justice, demilitarization, and sovereignty.In this talk and in the book, I center the memories of ��ɫ������վian women activists, who have been marginalized by sexist ways of memorializing the movement. I argue that these wāhine koa offer us futurities that reorient emplaced relationships between pasts and futures through aloha ʻāina. I also grapple with the question of why, in ��ɫ������վian scholarship and activism, aloha ʻāina needs mana wahine and a ��ɫ������վian feminist analysis.

Noelani Goodyear–Ka‘ōpua is Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science at ��ɫ������վ Mānoa. She is the author of The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native ��ɫ������վian Charter School (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), and coeditor of A Nation Rising: ��ɫ������վian Movements for Life, Land and Sovereignty (Duke University Press, 2014) and The Value of ��ɫ������վÊ»i, volume 2: Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Visions (��ɫ������վ Press, 2014).

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