Kapaemahu

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🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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In today's episode, we discuss Kapaemahu, a Hawai'ian sacred site commemorating four non-binary individuals. Join us to learn about gender in Kānaka Maoli culture, how the story of these stones has survived four centuries, and the logistical difficulties of moving large rocks. Check out our website, where you can find out everything there is to know about Queer as Fact, including source posts for each episode of our current season. If you enjoy this episode, consider supporting us on Patreon, checking out our merch, and following us on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. Note: We apologise for the sound quality issues on Eli's microphone in this episode.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Queer as Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world
0:03.9	and throughout time. I'm Alice. I'm Irene. I'm Eli. Today we're talking about Kapayamahu, a Hawaiian
0:09.8	sacred site commemorating four legendary non-binary individuals. I also want to mention before we start the episode that we're recording this at the start of July,
0:26.6	but we recorded it with no idea when it's going to be released because we just don't know
0:31.1	when we'll be allowed to record together. So we're taking the opportunity to record with Irene.
0:36.3	Hello, I'm here.
0:38.8	You may have heard on this podcast recently, but for us, we haven't recorded with for some time.
0:43.3	So we're just grabbing any chance we can to produce a podcast.
0:47.3	We have some content warning before we begin this episode.
0:49.9	We're going to be talking about human sacrifice, historical racism, historical and contemporary
0:55.3	queer phobia, and also just generally about the colonization of Hawaii.
0:59.9	If any of that sounds like something you don't want to listen to, feel free to skip this
1:02.4	episode and check out any of our other content.
1:04.9	I also just want to mention before we start that I'm going to be saying a lot of Hawaiian
1:08.8	words and names in this episode.
1:10.7	I've done my best to look up the pronunciation, but I'm probably going to say a lot of Hawaiian words and names in this episode.
1:14.2	I've done my best to look up the pronunciation, but I'm probably going to say a bunch of things wrong, and I apologize for that.
1:16.1	I also want to mention that the full name of Kapai Mahu as it's known today is Napa Haku-Ola
1:21.0	Kapai-Mahu Akapuni, which translates as the stones of life of Kapaiamahoo and Kapuni. I'll be using the short name Kapaiamahoo by which it's also known,
1:30.3	just because that's a lot to say in every second sentence.
1:33.1	But both are recognized names of the site.
1:35.2	Okay.
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