00:01Polynesian women in postcards, they will be offering fruit or a lei.
00:06If you're fair and you have a Eurocentric nose and you can swear your hips.
00:11Who am I? Am I just an object?
00:13Old white men have always been guided by their penis.
00:19Now we are fashioned to look like some kind of second-rate white woman.
00:24It reinforces racism as to what is the ideal concept of beauty.
00:30What do you do to a little brown girl when you tell her that she's not good?
00:35Sometimes you are just called meoli. And meoli generally means, like, thing.
00:41Yeah, words. Oof. They pack a punch.
00:44I just had this huge conflict about, like, I cannot go on a camera without my hair straightener.
00:51What makes a beautiful Pacific woman?
00:57I find, like, beauty in, like, hyena laughs.
01:01Connection to an island home.
01:04You get a whole punch in the face with what our experiences are. We don't hold back.
01:09We deserve to be in the spotlight. We deserve to be the main characters.
01:14And I know that mana wahine is being manifest.
01:18This generation is being raised to speak their truth.
01:21I'm like, I'm allowed to be here. This is our time.
01:25Oh, my turn it again.
01:27I'm allowed to be here. I'm on the show.
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