it’s #AAPIHeritageMonth & I’m sick of the Pacific Islander erasure in all these #AAPI lists so here’s a personal thread of PIs whose work makes me proud to call Oceania our shared home

[one for every day in May but this is by no means comprehensive so add your faves as well] 1. Hermana Ramarui, Belau🇵🇼
poet, educator, author of The Palauan Perspectives (1984)

her poem ‘Freedom’, published before Belau gained formal independence in 1994. she reminds me that our sovereignty is worth fighting for, even when the task seems futile