{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"K\u016b\u02bbi\u02bbolani Cotchay","description":"K\u016b\u02bbi\u02bbolani (she\/they) is a queer, mixed-K\u0101naka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) living in their ancestral lands in M\u0101kaha, Hawai\u02bbi. She is an educator, learning experience designer, musician\/creative and plant person. In this episode Miguel Mend\u00edas interviews K\u016b\u02bbi\u02bbolani about Hawaiian history, lands, language, color theory, queerness, colonization, belonging, being of mixed Indigenous ancestry, and living in highly-gentrified, highly trafficked tourist destinations.  * * * * * * * * * * * * * * For this episode we're asking folks who are able to support a gofundme that K\u016b\u02bbi\u02bbolani and their friend Kahele have launched to create a m\u0101h\u016b* (nonbinary, trans) led project in Hawai\u02bbi. They write: "Primarily, this project aims to house QTBIPOC community and repair relationship to land, especially for Kanaka Maoli, Indigenous, and Black relatives. Secondary to this objective, is a focus on creative endeavors, both traditional and contemporary. In general, it is the continuation of ancestral practices alongside new media, arts, and music."   * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To learn more about this collaboratively produced 2nd season check out our websites at www.countryqueers.com and www.weareoutintheopen.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Created and produced by Miguel Mend\u00edas, with support from HB Lozito from Out in the Open, and Rae Garringer of Country Queers. Sound Design by Hideo Higashibaba. Audio editor: Rae Garringer Editorial advisory dream team: Hermelinda Cort\u00e9s, Lewis Raven Wallace, and Sharon P. Holland Music by Tommy Anderson and Podington Bear.  Ambient recordings by K\u016b\u02bbi\u02bbolani Cotchay.    ","author_name":"Country Queers","author_url":"https:\/\/www.countryqueers.com","html":"