Feminist to Know: Haunani-Kay Trask

 
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Haunani-Kay Trask is a Kanaka Maoli feminist scholar and professor emeritus at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is known for her contributions to the larger fields of Indigenous studies and feminist scholarship. In particular, her book From A Native Daughter has served as an essential text in understanding the relationship between colonialism, patriarchy, and indigenous resistance in the context of Hawai’i. In it, Trask adds her voice to the Hawaiian sovereignty movement and deftly connects tourism, consumption, Kanaka Maoli femininity, and colonization in profoundly important critique.

As a foremost voice in Hawaiian studies who pays close attention to the interconnectedness of patriarchy and colonialism, Trask is a must-know feminist. She is also a leader and powerful speaker for the Kanaka Maoli sovereignty movement, pioneering a sub0movement in the 90s to appeal to the United Nations for recognition of human rights abuses perpetrated by the United States against Kanaka Maoli and the Hawaiian Kingdom. She is not an American.

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