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renmaicha

kanaka maoli & taiwanese-japanese diaspora

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Illustration

I am available for hire as a freelance illustrator for graphics, stickers, or other merchandise. When I have the time, I illustrate and sell stickers themed around my own identities.

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Writing

Currently, I am contracted as a content writer for Cut Fruit Collective, a Bay Area-based AAPI non-profit, where I often write about topics related to my own ethnic identities. Linked below are some of the pieces I've written.

• Understanding Settler Colonialism
• Interview with Peter Hessler
• Lā Ho’iho’i Ea
• Origins of Poke
• Coconuts

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ʻO Kanoelani koʻu inoa.
私の名前は連です。
我的名字是雅亭.My name is Ren (they/them), I am a māhū/non-binary/queer 20-something year old advocate, writer, and lover of AAPI cultures currently based on unceded Tongva/Kizh lands (Los Angeles, CA). I mostly chatter and create around my identity as a queer multi-ethnic person of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), CHamoru (Indigenous to Guahan/Guam), Taiwanese, and Japanese descent (although sometimes I will touch on other parts of my ethnic heritage I feel less connected to. #mixedkidfeelings), but I also enjoy creating art around the intersectionalities of being a fat, queer, AFAB person of color.

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