“Hermitville in Hawai’i” – A Subtext of Spiritual Settler/Colonialism in Occupied Lands

Hawai'i nei (beloved Hawai'i) has struggled with many, many forms of invasion over the last few hundred years - people, invasive species, political, military, economic, spiritual, and so on. The results have not been happy or sustainable for either the islands themselves or for the original people, the Kanaka Maoli. This blog is not going…

Intersex Characters in Hermitville

Babe Bump Frank Talk Babe Bump and Frank Talk, depicted as game peices, designed via HeroForge.com. Babe Bump, the book's primary narrator, and Frank Talk, one of Hermitville's fine musicans, live in bodies that have intersex variations. However, Babe and Frank each deal with a different set of circumstances, as the intersex variation of each…