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DazCherreh 🍉

@dazcherreh.bsky.social
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Starving ppl is an act of war & is so colonial history coded. It’s a literal war crime according to international law. However, seeing as the U.S. continues to get away w it, whether it’s mass starvation or illegal occupation, I guess contemporary genocide gets a pass too huh?
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Passed my comps and am now officially a PhD candidate!!! 💃🏽
Picture of me in a black long sleeve shirt, dark blue skinny jeans, black and brown wedges, with a maroon Kate spade purse. Standing on the bridge at the falls in SD. Picture of me in a black long sleeve shirt, dark blue skinny jeans, black and brown wedges, with a maroon Kate spade purse. Standing on the bridge at the falls in SD.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I wish my PhD ***
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Passed my comps with major revisions. I knew I was gonna get dinged for not focusing on “disparities.” I’ve resisted public health in that regard & no longer wish to contribute to damage-centered narratives (Tuck, 2009). We are more than our disparities & my PhD wasn’t dependent on deficit lenses
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I just finished and submitted my comp exams. I want someone to swaddle me, pat my butt, wipe away my tears and tell me everything’s gonna be okay 😭
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I got knees popping like a damn glow stick, and I’m over here wanting knees like Honey Balenciaga and Ciara.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
I don’t use a reference manager because I like to stress myself out manually inputting them 😅
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I swear to goodness I have to be the one Hawaiian who’s never received any help from KS 💀 Like baby! I’m from Waianae, was in foster care, and I’m first gen. Help a titah out damn 🫠
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 11/02/2025
Be yourself! Not like that. Speak up! Not like that. Relax! Not like that. Advocate for yourself! Not like that. Meet your needs! Not like that. Find what works for you! Not like that. Being different is awesome! Not like that. Find your passions! Not like that. Take care of yourself! Not like that.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I been dating someone who reflects both the strongest and softest parts of myself. & y’know how they say you attract your energy? Well, I think I’ve genuinely attracted someone who I don’t even have to explain myself to. And honestly, I’ve never felt so seen, vulnerable, and accepted in my life.
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Kameli 🌱 @kkealohaokalani.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
What an actual ham.
Weener dog sanding on two back legs like a meerkat
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Hui kākou! I’m putting out a kahea to help my hoa aloha find their keiki, Kaiʻea. They was last seen Nānākuli! Please kokua!
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Too many people keep saying, “They're just trying to get a reaction out of us.” A fascist government is not your petty ex. They don't need a reaction out of you. They're carrying out their agenda whether you react or not. Talking about the administrators of a fascist state like this is so detached.
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 05/04/2025
For Day 4 of Poetry Month, I am sharing this poetry collection by Ktunaxa poet Smokii Sumac that reflect on stories of Palestinians in Gaza who were risking their lives to share news of the genocide! 🇵🇸 fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/born-sa... Check out more poems here! ✨️ www.equitableforall.com/poetry/
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Born Sacred: Poems for Palestine
A journalistic poetry collection reflecting on Palestinian and Indigenous solidarities, genocides, life, and liberation.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
People trip out bc I work with individuals experiencing homelessness, incarceration, mental health/substance use, child welfare & it’s bc I’ve been through it too. I work in spaces & with people who walked similar paths as me & that’s nothing to trip about. I’m no different than the people I serve.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
With public health being obliterated, please remember COVID is still around and we got bird flu and measles to worry about now.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
It is such a privilege to be so loved and cared for by my hoa aloha. I kēia manawa, my hoa aloha gifted me this gorgeous ribbon skirt in my favorite colors, and I brought out my kihei I made of kapa to engage in cultural protocol and ceremony here in Aotearoa ♥️ #GlobalIndigenousHealth
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Which is a better move? Signing the NDA and accepting severance? Or saying to hell with it and flip birds?
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Indigenous leaders & students rally behind a University of Arizona law student who spoke out against the university’s recent changes to DEI initiatives in the face of pressure from the Trump administration. azluminaria.org/2025/02/21/i...
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Indigenous leaders rally behind law student critical of land acknowledgment, diversity language changes by UA - AZ Luminaria
Indigenous students and leaders are rallying behind a University of Arizona student who spoke out against the university’s recent changes to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the face of ...
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Me coming back from Australia: WHAT DID I COME BACK TO? 😭
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Everyone: get a PhD! It’ll open more doors for you! (Me, nearly a year from graduating with my PhD watching everyone get canned while also receiving emails about potentially getting canned…) 🥲🫠😭😭😭😭😭 #thisispublichealth
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Okay but you also need to get on the fish sauce (patis), chili pepper, garlic, cilantro, and lime juice cucumbers too! Change your whole life by making jars of cucumber everything!
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I found a word I don’t like. Pragmatic. I feel like it should be pragmatistic. I make the words extra. I make the words sassy. It’s needs that extra-ness for my brain to comprehend.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I thought that I was stronger to do this, but I’m not. No one talks about the burden of being the oldest daughter, and while I love and care for my dad, this is mentally why I question whether I can ever come back home or should ever be back home. I don’t feel like I belong here anymore.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
TW: g*n violence + SI I think coming home was a mistake. I’m so triggered. I left home 2yrs ago bc my Dad wasn’t taking care of himself & threatened to shoot himself & I haven’t been back home since. Now, seeing repeated patterns of neglect is something I don’t wanna be a witness to. I just can’t.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I think I got used to being in negative temps that 77 degrees has me straight up melting. Never in my life would I have imagined being hot considering I grew up west side. I’m seriously melting 🫠
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Me too! I have a 6-year plan to be back home. People wanna hire me right when I pau with my PhD for a professor position and I’m contemplating about going back to academia to be able to come back home. OR I do my 6-year plan. I don’t know yet 🫠
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Me too! I honestly wanna move back home 😭
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I would love some home cooked mea ‘ai! Too bad we not on the same island so we can go make food and go eat. Food, laughter, and good company is always the best medicine ♥️🥹😭
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
You so cute! I hardly skeet these days since I’m tryna keep a lower-profile. I’ve been at queens all week and was so tired of being at the hospital. Things are looking better for sure, but it’s been a lot just within a few days.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Yeah I came home for take care my Dad! He was in the hospital that’s why so I flew in couple days ago and it’s so weird being home again.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
It’s such a weird experience to come home and have malihini from California try tell ME about my culture? Like hunneh, my iwi is rooted in this ʻāina. Calm down.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I haven’t been home in two years because I left after enduring such a traumatic experience. Now, I’m heading home to care for my Dad who’s in the hospital and have so many feelings about everything that I don’t even know if I’m strong enough to even be headed home. I need my therapist.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Systemic racism gives no f’cks that we are humans. Systemic racism gives no f’cks about caretaking for our families. Systemic racism gives no f’cks about people because capitalism is always prioritized over communities & people.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
I might get fired from my job all while both my parents need medical attention. My Mum’s been in & outta the hospital. My Dad just got admitted. & yet, I might lose my job because I support unionizing & advocated for basic employee rights. & I might lose my job when I have my parents to care for.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Has anyone ever been a whistleblower before? Any advice? Is it worth it?
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Everyone is quitting, meanwhile everyone I work with is hoping we get fired so we can collect unemployment 💀
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Damn y’all. Happy belated anniversary of the ballistic missile alert. January 13th will forever remain the day that exemplifies the incompetence of the settler state in Hawaii nei 🙃
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I’m Indigenous & a union organizer. For the last couple of weeks, I have received emails harassing me about my job security & union voting. Those messages violates my federally protected rights to unionize. I hope the lawyers come through & this union comes through otherwise, I’m screwed.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
It also means I’m likely to get fired 1st because: 1. Resistors are expensive to capitalism & no one likes someone holding them accountable to their BS. 2. I’m invisible, & so’s my community bc there’s no data & hardly any real funding for NHPIs. My job security is dependent on funding I bring in
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I have a “professional” Bluesky & this one where I keep it real. I did this as protection because being the only Kanaka ʻŌiwi in the field means I always got a target on my back.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
They’re playing checkers. I’m playing chess. We are not the same.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
No amount of performance or expectation is worth a life. All of it is a function of colonialism at work. The lateral violence is what colonialism wants as much as our lives are too. So if we say we practice respect, reciprocity, & care, why is that not exhibited to colleagues in need of it?
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I hope that going forward, especially for my Indigenous & Black colleagues in the field that instead of lashing our & upholding capitalistic values of performance that we instead honor each others feelings because we can’t keep losing more of us in this space. No publication is worth a life.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I’ve spent the last year in therapy multiple times a week, increased my dose of meds, & tried to find stillness to calm my mind, trying to find realignment of my piko, finding strength in my relationships who supported me, & honor myself in my raw state of emotions & vulnerability.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Last year, I was in a very dark place. I went from survival mode to giving up. & I share because capitalism expected me to perform. Instead, I stood on boundaries & honored the capacity I did not have to give. So I lost colleagues in the process, but losing them is better than losing myself.
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
He’s literally second generation Puerto Rican in Hawaii, the least he coulda done was teach me how to speak Spanish fluently too 😭
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DazCherreh 🍉 @dazcherreh.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
My Dad in particular can be this dad 😅 but, I’ll give him credit for at least teaching me how to fix a lot of things on a car but damn growing up with all my cousins talking in Spanish & Portuguese & not engaging sucked & now living on the continent & not being able to speak sucks too.
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