Ep. 47: Reflections from across Oceania and Indigenous Feminism with Lana Lopesi

Lana Lopesi is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon
interested in Indigenous and Women of Colour Feminisms,
Contemporary Art, and Global Indigeneities. We begin this episode
by reflecting on both of our recent shifts in social and
political context moving from Aotearoa-New Zealand to the
continental United States. This episode covers terms and the
differences of scale across societies, feminisms including Sāmoan
perspectives, and an analysis of various systems of power from
the macro level to the internal. We conclude with a reflection on
ideas, community impact, as well as consider cultural values and
their entanglements within an assumed system of morality, which
is gendered in particular ways.


 


Bloody Woman by Lana Lopesi.


 


Terms: Karanga (a formal or ceremonial call); karakia (ritual
chant, say grace), Nafanua (Guardian/Patron/Goddess of War),
Salamasina (15th century paramount who held all four district
titles as Tafa‘ifa), Vā Moana, Kaukalaikiiki/Tautalaitiiti (‘to
speak above one’s age’, impudent, cheeky).