the road less traveled by.

Indigenous Women Rise sing warrior song

Kaui #1 (2015)  // Native Realities and INC Comics

“A Polynesian Tale of Beauty and the Beast

When a young woman is washed out to sea, she wakes to find herself on a mysterious island filled with magic, dangers, and secrets.  As she remembers the stories she was taught as a child, a new story unfolds around her, one that has dangerous consequences for those who don’t listen and those who don’t care. “

Story: Kristina Bad Hand , art: Kristina Bad Hand

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Racebent Disney Princesses x

“Here’s a compilation of my racebent series with all of our major Disney ladies. :D It’s been so fun creating these, and I’ve been both shocked and beyond thrilled with the overwhelming support I’ve received for this series! :) Thank you all so much for the wonderful messages and the continued enthusiasm. <3<3<3”

Cultural Censorship …

Shigeyuki Kihara - Taualuga: The Last Dance

The Victorian mourning dress for me is a signifier of colonialism. With that dress, I mean it’s just so tight and so awkward to move. So it’s basically designed to contain your movements rather than be free with it. But I was interested in a way that I could use this colonial structure that bondages me and finding a new language, a dance language through this bondaged state.

For me when I’m performing, I imagine the photograph of the Samoan woman in a Victorian mourning dress in my mind and then making her move in my mind like a film. So every time I dance, I’m actually imagining her and her emotion.

The intention of Taualuga: The Last Dance was to talk about the aftermath of colonialism. After you’ve gone through all this violence and pain, you need this space of reflection to mourn.