Anne Keala Kelly, Guest for the Full Hour

Tiokasin Ghosthorse and guest Anne Keala Kelly discuss representation and take the new Disney film "Moana 2" as the jumping off point for their conversation. They talk about the film and whats wrong with it for multiple cultural, spiritual and political reasons, and the way Disney and Hollywood continue to exploit Indigenous peoples and their cultures and profit from it. Keala is a Kanaka Maoli award-winning documentary filmmaker, journalist, podcaster, writer and activist living on Hawaii Island. Her works address the critical links between cultural, environmental and spiritual survival in the movement for Hawaiian self-determination, and Indigenous peoples struggles for territorial and political autonomy. She is an outspoken advocate for Indigenous self-representation in mass media. Keala is the author of "Our Rights to Self-Determination: A Hawaiian Manifesto," which was published in 2022. For more information about Keala and her work, visit annekealakelly.com. For background: Keala published a 2016 column, "The Unflattering Cultural Poaching of Moana is a Threat" about the first Moana film and everything she wrote back then still rings true today: https://bit.ly/402Mp0a