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🌺 @leiculture issue 10
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SKBC is back—happy pride!—with our first ever poetry selection. The queer ‘Ōiwi poet No’u Revilla will graciously be in attendance to read from her award-winning full-length debut, including a revised version of “Ex is a Verb,” published in @leiculture, which you can swipe to read ➡️

The book can be purchased @dashophnl, @smallkinegift and @nativebookshi. RSVP at the link in bio. taken in DaShop.hnl by @mitchellkuga

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How we designed the new @leiculture in 40 seconds ✨

Available to purchase at @smallkinegift @fishcakehawaii and @mori_hawaii and at the link in bio

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and thank you to all the contributors and featured artists who helped bring this issue to life 🫶🫶🫶 taken in Honolulu, Hawaii by @mitchellkuga

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When @adobe asked me to create something to honor my elders and heritage, I talked to my parents about joy, which isn’t something we’ve really discussed before: how they define happiness, happy memories with their parents, and the ways they find joy in their Japanese-Okinawan heritage as it’s expressed in Hawai’i. Here are 3 snippets I love because they capture something my parents have taught me about finding happiness in the little things (like clothes lol) and I also love hearing their laughter.

During what continues to be a scary time for many Asians in America— when it sometimes feels like our Asian elders only become legible via violence and trauma—talking to my parents was a good reminder to prioritize happiness too, that joy can also be part of their narrative.

Share how the elders in your life inspire you with the hashtag #OurDearElders. #AdobePartner by @mitchellkuga

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🚨This Saturday @honolulumuseum Doris Duke Theatre🚨 For the past few months I’ve been working with HoMA to bring @leiculture to life. Our first offering: a spotlight on The Glade Nightclub featuring a screening of Connie Florez’s yet to be released documentary on the iconic “Boys Will Be Girls Revue,” which started in the 60s, followed by a talk story panel with founder Brandy Lee and performer Sheri Shane, moderated by Cocoa Chandelier. Tickets to the event are free with museum entry, and registration is requested (link in bio). taken in Honolulu Museum of Art by @mitchellkuga

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literally posting this just so my page isn’t all book club flyers by @mitchellkuga

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Q2 pau by @mitchellkuga

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Round 4 of Small Kine Book Club goes to a hallmark of local queer lit: R. Zamora Linmark’s experimental novel Rolling The R’s, about a group of Filipino kids coming of age in 1970s Kalihi.

You can buy the book at @smallkinegift, @dashophnl or @kayapress. Scan the QR code to resister, then join us on August 8th @dashophnl to discuss!

Flyer designed by @codymaemori 🧑‍🎨 taken in DaShop.hnl by @mitchellkuga

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Happy indie bookstore day 🤓 SKBC is back for Round 3, and this time we’re reading @tkiramadden’s critically acclaimed memoir, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls.

Copies available at @smallkinegift (shipment pending) and @dashophnl, or wherever you buy books. Read it over the next 8 weeks, then join us @dashophnl on June 20th to discuss (word on the street is the author might even be there 👀). taken in DaShop.hnl by @mitchellkuga

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Grilled cheese anyone? SKBC is back for Round 2 and this time we’re reading HEATED RIVALRY, the steamy hockey romance book that’s now a hit TV show.

Copies available at @smallkinegift and @dashophnl or wherever you buy books. Read it over the next six weeks, then join us April 11th to discuss.

We’ll see you on the ice!!! 🏒⛸️ by @mitchellkuga

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Small Kine Book Club kicks off on Saturday, February 21st at @dashophnl!!! Every six weeks we’ll read widely across genres—everything from memoir and oral history to fiction, poetry, and graphic novels—so long as the content is “queer.” First up is The Mahele of Our Bodies: Nā Moʻolelo Kūpuna Māhū/LGBTQ, an oral history generated from the lives of ten Kānaka Maoli kūpuna who are LGBTQ or māhū. You can buy the book at @dashophnl, @smallkinegift (delivery pending), @nativebookshi, and online. Please register at small.kine.gift/bookclub

Flyer designed by @codymaemori taken in DaShop.hnl by @mitchellkuga

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3 years with diesel kaukau lexapro kuga-kurtz 🥹 taken in The Public Pet by @mitchellkuga

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