What Does It Mean to Be Queer in Hawaiʻi?
ʻIhilani Lasconia
Hūlili: Multidisciplinary Research on Hawaiian Well-Being, 12, 344–360.
Abstract
Drawing on lived experience as a queer Kanaka ʻŌiwi, this polemic examines how white queer culture reproduces settler colonial and heteropatriarchal norms in Hawaiʻi. It calls for reimagining queer life beyond the limits of white frameworks.
Recommended Citation
Lasconia, I. (2026). What does it mean to be queer in Hawaiʻi? Hūlili: Multidisciplinary Research on Hawaiian Well-Being, 12, 344–360.













