IKUNA means victory, to overcome, to achieve in Tongan.

Elevating culture, For the qultures! The Lauti brothers, Jay, Tai, and Feke are 3 dedicated men who founded IKUNA, an organization that advocates for successful outcomes for the Pacific Islander community. Rooted in Oakland, C.A., The Lauti Brothers talanoa with us about their victorious work!

Tap in with IKUNA on Instragram @ikunaed or by email [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Also tap in with IKUNA Apparel ikunaapparel.com proceeds fund IKUNA programs.

The sensational fashion designer extraordinaire, Epeli Tuibeqa, talanoa-s with us about his love for fashion and how Pacific culture informs his aesthetic with his line, KuiViti. Epeli also introduces us to Jaqueline La Queer Dubois. Securrrity!!!

Tap in with Epeli Tuibeqa on Instagram @kuiviti_couture or @etuibeqa or on his website www.kuivitipr.wix.com

If you like what you hear and the spirit of giving moves you, please donate to our podcast via our paypal: paypal.me/forthequltures

Our girl Ruby se'e-s(slides) her way into the podcast to chop it up with us about being Fa'afafine, Trans, a Christian, and a founding member of Tifa i Moana Dance Group. Tap in with an open mind and open heart. Hate will not be tolerated!!!

Tap in with Ruby on social media @tifaimoanadance or [email protected]

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Bunga by SWIDT (Spycc): https://youtu.be/qQBEJQJ7_JQ

Bunga article by Alice Lolohea of Tagata Pasefika: https://tpplus.co.nz/entertainment/swidt-preview-brand-new-album-with-the-release-of-bunga/

Long Live The Fupa! lol. We choppin it up with Lupe Katoa about her live video, how life has been after going viral, and what it's been like to have a hefty size of humble pie.

Lupe recently went live at the Donna Marie concert and was talking hella shit. She claimed to have wasted her outfit and called a group of women who were living their best lives ugly, pathetic, grenades. Her video was then leaked and went viral. The internet was relentless and tore her up, called her all kinds of names, made hella memes about her, and called her out threatening her with violence. After a week of being put through the wringer, one of the women who was in the video, Kaveinga, reached out to Lupe to address the issue like adults. They sat down, reconciled, and Lupe issued out an apology. The situation took an unexpected turn for the better that changed the momentum of the whole ordeal.

O le ala i le pule o le tautua (The path to leadership is through service) - Samoan Proverb. Epi & Faga speak about their tautua to the Samoan community in the Bay Area and how their servant hearts have been providing solutions for the past 12 years.

Tap in with all things Samoan Solutions: https://linktr.ee/samoansolutions

"The only real revolution happens right inside of you." - J. Cole

We chop it about Black culture, appropriation vs. acculturation, anti-Blackness in our Pasifika communities, and how we can do/be better in solidarity with the Black community!

Tap in w/ AfroTeine's podcast: The Real Tautala https://soundcloud.com/user-753101404

We sit down with the Brown Skin Lady w/ the Brown Skin Baby, Rocky Rivera, to chop it up about Rocky's Revenge and more.

Peep her latest video "Best Shot" directed by @been.milky: https://youtu.be/7h3_mkorQV4

Tap in with all things Rocky Rivera:

https://rockyrivera.bigcartel.com

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/rockys-revenge/1437848066

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2GYpVuQKY90oIhLSA07G18

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj5rJs2d8gXoeS8gw6H_5kw

We are humbled and honored to chop it up with Director, Na'alehu Anthony, about the new film, Moananuiakea, and his kuleana (one's personal sense of responsibility) as a filmmaker.

"Mālama Honua" is simply translated as "to care for our island earth" but the Hawaiian language is beautiful and complex. Mālama Honua means to take care of and protect everything that makes up our world: land, oceans, living beings, our cultures, and our communities. It means learning from the lessons of islanders to take care of your limited resources, as though you were living on a canoe in the open ocean or an island in the middle of the sea. On a canoe, water, food, plants, and other basic needs are in limited supply and are tended to with great care; so too we must tend to our resources on islands, and for all of Island Earth.

Moananuiakea celebrates the historic Mālama Honua Worldwide Voyage aboard the Hokule'a that connected countless individuals and communities from around the globe. This voyage also represented the fulfillment of the vision of Nainoa Thompson and his contemporaries, the passing of the mantle of celestial navigation to the next generation of Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) who will retain the skills of their ancestors and perpetuate this tradition for generations to come.

Check out more about the film at https://www.moananuiakea.film

Check out more about the Polynesian Voyage Society and the Hokule'a at http://www.hokulea.com/

Required Viewing

Papa Mau: The Wayfinder

https://oiwi.tv/hokulea/papa-mau-the-wayfinder/

More about "Kuleana:" http://www.managingwithaloha.com/19-values-of-aloha/kuleana/

We get to Faika (gossip)with Nackie & Carl of the Faika Podcast. They bring so much heat you can hear the fan in the background 😂

Tap in and subscribe to them by downloading the Faika app. You can also subscribe to them on Apple Podcast, Google, and SoundCloud. All things PolyByDesign, tap in to www.polybydesign.com

⚠️TRIGGER WARNING⚠️

Our "Would You Rather" deals with sexual violence. Be advised!

Tears, giggles, and music with the amazing soulstress, Lady Saane. www.soundcloud.com/ladysaane

Register to get your free tickets to the screening of Moananuiakea: One Ocean, One People. One Canoe. playing in San Francisco on Tuesday, 9/24 and in Oakland on Wednesday, 9/25 bit.ly/ftqmoananuiakea

TedTalk: Re-thinking the Fijian Man by Jope Tarai https://youtu.be/qh_ClbaSVTs