Mitchell Kuga

Mar 14, 2025 | fluxhawaii.com | Mitchell Kuga

Images by Michelle MishinaOur side will win because we have the love. The other side is the market, empire, capitalism, patriarchy, racism, and homophobia. It is not a club for lovers, and I know that on any given day half the students I am trying to teach law to are concerned primarily with their hearts. Will I find love, will it last, who will love me, does she love me, why doesn’t he love me anymore, if she loves me why do I feel so lonely, should I leave.

Mar 12, 2025 | fluxhawaii.com | Mitchell Kuga

Images by Brandyn Liu and Cole TurnerDespite the boldly unconventional motifs that run through the textiles designer Colleen Kimura’s work — from the bones of the humuhumunukunukuapuaʻa to a wilting torch ginger far past its prime — it’s her colors that hit you first: a dreamy periwinkle that fizzles against the shock of citron-yellow or a brown rust billowing across an earthy expanse of moss.

Aug 27, 2024 | them.us | Mitchell Kuga

In 1963, when Brandy Lee was asked to organize a “female impersonation” show in Honolulu’s Red Light District, māhū like her were treated as “the lowest of the low,” she says. Which is exactly why she agreed. “I felt so squashed down in every part of my life at that time that I felt, well, the only way you can go is up,” says the now 82-year-old singer and entertainer.

Apr 26, 2024 | msn.com | Mitchell Kuga

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Apr 26, 2024 | billboard.com | Mitchell Kuga

Steve Aoki is obsessed with numbers.