I am enmeshed in a dissertation that I hope in a creatively non-fiction way imagines a future that is indigenous and anarchistic.
Hawaiians are Not Science Fiction, But We Should Be: Imagining New Stories for Our Futures
“the pursuit of sovereignty is an attempt to revive not our past, but our possibilities.”
—Scott Richard Lyons(Ojibwe/Mdewakanton Dakota)
Hawaiians are not science fiction. We are not futuristic. No indigenous person is. At least that is what they seem to be telling us. We are not in any of their visions of the future. We do not go boldly where no man has gone before. “Excelsior” doesn’t translate into any of our languages. We are not John Carter of Mars or Buck Rogers in the 25th Century or Flash Gordon of wherever and whenever he was supposed to be from. If we do show up, it is as Nalo Hopkinson says in her introduction to So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy: “one of the most…
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