Pidgin: "Tita"

A tita is hawaiian pidgin meaning strong woman, tough woman, a local, she is the female counterpart to a "moke", and their genealogy is anti-colonial resistors of colonization. According to an article by Susan M. Schultz, "Local Vocals: Hawai's Pigin Literature, Performance and Postcoloniality" in the book Close Listening Poetry and the Performed Word by Charles Bernstein, tita refers to a "large woman with a loud voice, who is brash and often funny...Tita's gain their authority through their voices..."(Oxford University Press 1998:345).

Mokes, titas....Hawaiian resistance
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