From a Pacific Daughter: Haunani-Kay Trask’s Legacy for Indigenous Pacific Feminisms

Abstract

Adding to her profound legacy of resistance to colonization and activism for Hawai‘i and Kānaka Maoli, this essay pays tribute to Haunani-Kay Trask and explores the ways in which her various creative and scholarly publications can be used as theories and methodologies in a growing area of study called Indigenous Pacific feminisms. This paper acknowledges that, though Trask disavowed herself from feminism toward the latter part of her life, it is critical to share the significance of her contributions to Indigenous Pacific feminisms as shaping “baskets of resilience” for students, organizers, and decolonial dreamers in the Pacific and diaspora.