Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio
Biographic Data
| ID | 778018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamaica Heolimeleikalani |
| FAMILY NAME | Osorio |
| SIGNATURE | OSORIO J H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
E Mau Ke Ea: Sovereignty, Sanctuary, and Collective Liberation
Israel's ongoing genocidal campaign in Palestine brings into critical focus the violence embedded in positivist notions of state sovereignty. The narrative highlights the devastating impact of the ongoing illegal Israeli occupation while critiquing the global justification and sustenance of Israel's genocidal campaign under the guise of "self-defense" and "national security." While Palestinian intellectuals and activists have effectively challeng…
Call to Prayer
“Call to Prayer” is a poem that attempts to capture and portray the experience of standing in the malu (shade and protection) of the sacred. Whether that malu is cast by monument, an altar, or a mountain, the poem depicts the kuleana (responsibilities and privileges) of recognizing our pilina (intimacy and relationship) to that which is kapu (sacred). The poem travels through the knowledges of faith, courage, devotion, fear, and aloha via the per…
Abolition Dreams from a Resurgent Pu'uhonua
This essay weaves an 'upena of critical discourse to contribute to a Kanaka Maoli abolitionist theory and praxis. Following the lead of Kumu Haunani-Kay Trask, I explore the intersection of the Black Radical Tradition and Critical Hawaiian Studies at the nexus of carcerality and multiple forms of Native and Black Dispossessions. Specifically, this essay builds upon Tiffany Lethabo King's The Black Shoals and George Terry Kanalu Young's Rethinking…
The Value of Hawaiʻi 3: Hulihia, the Turning
“Hulihia” refers to massive upheavals that change the landscape, overturn the normal, reverse the flow, and sweep away the prevailing or assumed. We live in such days. Pandemics. Threats to ʻāina. Political dysfunction, cultural appropriation, and disrespect. But also powerful surges toward sustainability, autonomy, and sovereignty. The first two volumes of The Value of Hawaiʻi ( Knowing the Past, Facing the Future and Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Vi…
Gathering Stories of Belonging: Honouring the Moʻolelo and Ancestors that Refuse to Forget Us
For too long Indigenous queers have been forced to quiet our pleasure and intimacy to be digestible to our communities. As more Indigenous queer scholars have begun to interrogate and move in conversation between Native studies and queer and feminist theory, Indigenous queers and feminists are carefully articulating a necessary shift in approach and perspective when unpacking the erasures and displacemennt of intimacy and desire under the tyranny…
Gathering Stories of Belonging: Honouring the Moʻolelo and Ancestors that Refuse to Forget Us
For too long Indigenous queers have been forced to quiet our pleasure and intimacy to be digestible to our communities. As more Indigenous queer scholars have begun to interrogate and move in conversation between Native studies and queer and feminist theory, Indigenous queers and feminists are carefully articulating a necessary shift in approach and perspective when unpacking the erasures and displacemennt of intimacy and desire under the tyranny…
The Value of Hawaiʻi 3: Hulihia, the Turning
“Hulihia” refers to massive upheavals that change the landscape, overturn the normal, reverse the flow, and sweep away the prevailing or assumed. We live in such days. Pandemics. Threats to ʻāina. Political dysfunction, cultural appropriation, and disrespect. But also powerful surges toward sustainability, autonomy, and sovereignty. The first two volumes of The Value of Hawaiʻi ( Knowing the Past, Facing the Future and Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Vi…
Gathering Stories of Belonging: Honouring the Moʻolelo and Ancestors that Refuse to Forget Us
For too long Indigenous queers have been forced to quiet our pleasure and intimacy to be digestible to our communities. As more Indigenous queer scholars have begun to interrogate and move in conversation between Native studies and queer and feminist theory, Indigenous queers and feminists are carefully articulating a necessary shift in approach and perspective when unpacking the erasures and displacemennt of intimacy and desire under the tyranny…
Call to Prayer
“Call to Prayer” is a poem that attempts to capture and portray the experience of standing in the malu (shade and protection) of the sacred. Whether that malu is cast by monument, an altar, or a mountain, the poem depicts the kuleana (responsibilities and privileges) of recognizing our pilina (intimacy and relationship) to that which is kapu (sacred). The poem travels through the knowledges of faith, courage, devotion, fear, and aloha via the per…
Abolition Dreams from a Resurgent Pu'uhonua
This essay weaves an 'upena of critical discourse to contribute to a Kanaka Maoli abolitionist theory and praxis. Following the lead of Kumu Haunani-Kay Trask, I explore the intersection of the Black Radical Tradition and Critical Hawaiian Studies at the nexus of carcerality and multiple forms of Native and Black Dispossessions. Specifically, this essay builds upon Tiffany Lethabo King's The Black Shoals and George Terry Kanalu Young's Rethinking…
E Mau Ke Ea: Sovereignty, Sanctuary, and Collective Liberation
Israel's ongoing genocidal campaign in Palestine brings into critical focus the violence embedded in positivist notions of state sovereignty. The narrative highlights the devastating impact of the ongoing illegal Israeli occupation while critiquing the global justification and sustenance of Israel's genocidal campaign under the guise of "self-defense" and "national security." While Palestinian intellectuals and activists have effectively challeng…
Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Autoethnography (1 works) · Chemistry (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works)