Saltwater Archives: Transoceanic Feminist Mediations on Embodied Memories and Repertoires of Knowledge

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ABSTRACT“Saltwater Archives: Transoceanic Feminist Mediations on Embodied Memories and Repertoires of Knowledge” is a multimedia exploration into the role of embodied archives, memory, and repertoire in building transoceanic solidarities. As queer Indigenous and diasporic scholars and writers of the Pacific, as well as oceanic feminists, saltwater archives remind us of the importance of theorizing from the flesh.KEYWORDS: Oceanic feminismsdiaspora studiesperformance studiesnative Pacific studiesland based pedagogyIndigenous feminisms Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Joy Lehuanani Enomoto and Keali’i MacKenzie, “Saltwater Archives: Native knowledge in a time of rising tides,” in Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics, ed. Olivia Rutazibwa and Robbie Shillman (London: Routledge, 2018), 299.2. To view the multimedia submission, please visit: https://rb.gy/6i43i3. Enomoto and MacKenzie, “Saltwater Archives,” 298–301.Additional informationNotes on contributorsKatherine AchacosoKatherine Achacoso is a queer daughter of the Filipinx diaspora, with ancestral ties to Surigao and Bohol. She is a current doctoral candidate in the Department of American Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and a Pre-to-Post Doctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies at Dartmouth College. She is an avid advocate for public education and place-based curriculum. Recently, she curated #theMaunaKeaSyllabusProject (a special issue on the movement to protect Mauna Kea published in July 2021 by Hawaiʻi Review) and the Filipinx in Hawaiʻi Collective Series on “Why Black Lives Matter in the Filipinx diaspora.”Patricia (Trish) TupouPatricia (Trish) Tupou is of Tongan, Irish and Bohemian descent and was born and raised in Kirikiriroa on Waikato-Tainui land in Aotearoa. She currently lives in Tāmaki Makaurau where she works at Wheke Fortress, an artist-led space for queer Māori and Pacific Islander creatives. She is also a PhD student at the Australian National University.Halena Kapuni-ReynoldsHalena Kapuni-Reynolds (Kanaka ʻŌiwi) was born on Hawaiʻi Island and raised in the Hawaiian homestead community of Keaukaha and the upper rain forest of ‘Ōla‘a. He holds a B.A. in Anthropology and Hawaiian Studies from the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo and an M.A. in anthropology with a focus in Museum and Heritage Studies from the University of Denver. Halena is also a past participant of numerous museum fellowships, including the Smithsonian Institute of Museum Anthropology (2014), the Peabody Essex Museum Native American Fellowship Program (2015), and the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS) Native American Sciences Initiative (2016).