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Matthew Dekneef

@mattdknf

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Joined March 2009
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I'm I'll buy a $20 bottle of wine years old now.


Wrote about some beautiful Hawaiians for @them

“To be māhū is a blessing,” reminds Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu. “To be māhū is greater than the gender binary—male, female, those are the ordinary people. I can see the world from two different sides.” More at @them: bit.ly/3i7Q1dP 📸 Mahina Choy-Ellis.

TransLawCenter's tweet image. “To be māhū is a blessing,” reminds Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu. “To be māhū is greater than the gender binary—male, female, those are the ordinary people. I can see the world from two different sides.”

More at @them: bit.ly/3i7Q1dP

📸 Mahina Choy-Ellis.


Scarfing down a hamburger over the hood of my idling car between jobs while Dion plays on the radio


Solving Wordle in da club.


Naming themselves “developers” is an astounding PR strategy.


My first order of business as a gay Polynesian uncle is to not let my niece grow up thinking “Landslide” is an original song by Josh Tatofi. This island girl will know Stevie Nicks!!!


I’d rather tip housekeepers at hotels $75 then pay a cleaning fee to an airbnb host.


If I text you “🥭” it means my heart doing the tango


Hit a noseride on a long left just as a catamaran was passing by everyone aboard started cheering and I felt so embarrassingly cool 🤣🤣🤣🤣


Summer so far; Patterns of abundance.

mattdknf's tweet image. Summer so far; Patterns of abundance.
mattdknf's tweet image. Summer so far; Patterns of abundance.
mattdknf's tweet image. Summer so far; Patterns of abundance.
mattdknf's tweet image. Summer so far; Patterns of abundance.

Matthew Dekneef Reposted

The 2022 Class of the CAPE New Writers Fellowship as follows (L-R | T-B) . . . ⭐Kiran Alamelu Subramaniam (@subrawoman) ⭐Kat Jiang (@KatJiang) ⭐Liz Fields (@lianzifields) ⭐Matthew DeKneef (@mattdknf) ⭐Kirk Damato (@kirksays) ⭐Sowmya Ashokkumar ⭐Sandra Hamada (@sandyhamada)

CAPEUSA's tweet image. The 2022 Class of the CAPE New Writers Fellowship as follows (L-R | T-B) . . .
⭐Kiran Alamelu Subramaniam (@subrawoman)
⭐Kat Jiang (@KatJiang)
⭐Liz Fields (@lianzifields)
⭐Matthew DeKneef (@mattdknf)
⭐Kirk Damato (@kirksays)
⭐Sowmya Ashokkumar
⭐Sandra Hamada (@sandyhamada)

Hawaiʻi stay evergreen

mattdknf's tweet image. Hawaiʻi stay evergreen
mattdknf's tweet image. Hawaiʻi stay evergreen
mattdknf's tweet image. Hawaiʻi stay evergreen
mattdknf's tweet image. Hawaiʻi stay evergreen

Matthew Dekneef Reposted

Local journalism thrives when the people in charge of it are personally invested in the community — and when those people understand that good journalism speaks truth to power regardless of who holds it. 7/


Lyft driver said “land back,” barista threw in a free poi donut. Lāpule living.

mattdknf's tweet image. Lyft driver said “land back,” barista threw in a free poi donut. Lāpule living.
mattdknf's tweet image. Lyft driver said “land back,” barista threw in a free poi donut. Lāpule living.

Not wordle, just entering a local person’s house 🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫 🩴🟫👡👡🟫 🟫🟫🩴🩴🟫 🟫👟👟🟫🟫 🟫🟫🟫👠🟫 🩰🟫👡🥿🟫 🟫👞👠👞🟫 🟫🟫🟫🥾🥾 🥿🟫🩴🩴🟫 🟫🟫🟫🟫🟫


Franco Salmoiraghi’s timely “I Ola Kanaloa! I Ola Kakou: Photographs of Kaho‘olawe, 1976–1987” on view at Arts & Letters. Never-before-seen images of early Protect Kaho‘olawe ‘Ohana access trips as activists worked to end the U.S. Navy’s bombings of the island.

mattdknf's tweet image. Franco Salmoiraghi’s timely “I Ola Kanaloa! I Ola Kakou: Photographs of Kaho‘olawe, 1976–1987” on view at Arts & Letters. Never-before-seen images of early Protect Kaho‘olawe ‘Ohana access trips as activists worked to end the U.S. Navy’s bombings of the island.
mattdknf's tweet image. Franco Salmoiraghi’s timely “I Ola Kanaloa! I Ola Kakou: Photographs of Kaho‘olawe, 1976–1987” on view at Arts & Letters. Never-before-seen images of early Protect Kaho‘olawe ‘Ohana access trips as activists worked to end the U.S. Navy’s bombings of the island.

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