Naʻu Moʻopuna - For My Grandchildren
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2021-12-07
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6
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In the poem “Sons” by Haunani-Kay Trask, kumu Haunani gives birth to the concept of being “slyly reproductive”. Within Trask’s poem, diction reflects seductive solutions to break free from heteronormative and patriarichal molds in order to give ea that transcends generations. The sixth and seventh stanzas, for example, tell of how Trask brings life into this world:
I am slyly
Reproductive, ideas
Books, history
Politics, reproducing
The rope of resistance
For unborn generations. (56)
From these two stanzas, one can see that Trask has successfully found a way to reproduce on her own terms. What Trask offers to the world is independent consent that is not gendered. How she brings life into the world is done so in a way that is completely on her own terms. Not only has Trask conceived multiple paths towards humble immortality, but radicalized an entire nation on this journey.
In honor of Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask and in the spirit of being “slyly reproductive”, “Na‘u Mo‘opuna” is an epistolary style poem that is a love letter to the next generation of Kanaka Maoli and Aloha ʻĀina. This poem would not have been possible without the inspiration from kumu Haunani’s art and activism. As a queer Kanaka wahine I do not know if I will every have biological children. But through my academic genealogy, having been mentored by Dr. Noʻukahauʻoli Revilla who was mentored by Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask, I know that it is my kuleana to continue their legacy through my work and to continue to reproduce their ropes of resistance in my own life.
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