{"id":2051,"date":"2026-01-20T08:53:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:54:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:54:46","slug":"colloquium-refusing-queer-paradise-mahu-pedagogies-of-queer-indigenous-re-memory-in-hawaii-by-pomaikai-gushiken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/colloquium-refusing-queer-paradise-mahu-pedagogies-of-queer-indigenous-re-memory-in-hawaii-by-pomaikai-gushiken\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium: \u201cRefusing &#8216;Queer Paradise&#8217;: M\u0101h\u016b Pedagogies of Queer Indigenous Re-Memory in Hawai\u02bbi\u201d by P\u014dmaika\u02bbi Gushiken"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Join the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies for our colloquium speaker series<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Monday, January 26, 2026<br \/>\n1:00-2:00 p.m.<br \/>\nCHASS INTS 1111<\/h3>\n<p>Based on close readings of a queer Native Hawaiian &#8216;zine and LGBTQ+ travel writing about Hawai\u02bbi, this talk develops the concept of \u201cm\u0101h\u016b pedagogies\u201d to argue that while settler homonationalist tourism narratives enact cultural prostitution by figuring Hawai\u02bbi as a \u201cqueer paradise\u201d absent of Native resurgence, m\u0101h\u016b and queer Indigenous cultural workers refuse colonial narratives by centering queer Indigenous relationalities that generate decolonial futures.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2053 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Pomaikai_Gushiken.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"303\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Pomaikai_Gushiken.png 303w, https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Pomaikai_Gushiken-187x300.png 187w, https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Pomaikai_Gushiken-94x150.png 94w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><\/td>\n<td><strong>Dr. P\u014dmaika\u02bbi Gushiken<\/strong>, is a Kanaka \u02bb\u014ciwi and Uchin\u0101nchu educator and researcher from N\u0101n\u0101kuli, Hawai\u02bbi. Currently a UC Chancellor\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA, he holds a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>His research focuses on decolonization, queer Indigenous futurity, and the intersections of pedagogy, refusal, and ea in Hawai\u02bbi.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the UCR Department of Ethnic Studies for our colloquium speaker series Monday, January 26, 2026 1:00-2:00 p.m. CHASS INTS 1111 Based on close readings of a queer Native Hawaiian &#8216;zine and LGBTQ+ travel writing about Hawai\u02bbi, this talk develops the concept of \u201cm\u0101h\u016b pedagogies\u201d to argue that while settler homonationalist tourism narratives enact cultural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[52,51],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-colloquium","tag-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2055,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethnicstudies.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}