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Essay, Cohort 2025

Wearing Culture: Rotuman Tofua

Dorell Ben

Dec 12, 2025

For Rotumans in diaspora, as with many Oceanic peoples, wearing traditional cultural dress is a way to maintain connections to their island identities. In this essay, Dorell Ben traces the journey of the tofua, from its beginnings as attire only worn by chiefs and royalty to the ways modern Rotuman weavers are trying to keep the tradition alive.

Feature, Cohort 2025

ʻI Speak for the Forest, for the Rivers, for the Ancestors Who Keep Conversing Through the Mambe’: Aimema Úai paints Murui-Muina continuity

Angélica Cuevas-Guarnizo

Nov 26, 2025

Artist and mambeólogo Aimema Úai (La Chorrera, Colombian Amazon) transforms the maloka—the ceremonial house and spiritual center of the Murui-Muina people—into a place of continuity and resistance.