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Brown Girl Woke

Brown Girl Woke founder Maluseu Doris Tulifau addresses group members
Apia, SAMOA — Blood on the walls. Bruises like smashed plums. As long as Sefina* can remember, family violence has been part of her life. She watched her mother routinely attacked by her stepfather. “Sorry,” her mother would whisper afterwards to the children. Then, Sefina’s elder sister was nearly...
Maluseu Doris Tulifau (right) and Anncelitta Meli
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — One of the institutional learning values of the American Samoa Community College (ASCC) is that its graduates acquire skills as critical thinkers, and, among other specific qualities, “they recognize the need for multiple voices and seek opportunities for those voices to...
Miss ASCC Grace Lagai (front, far left) and members of the judging panel congratulate the Samoana High School students
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Institutional Core Values of American Samoa Community College (ASCC) state the goal of students learning to become effective communicators, critical thinkers, global citizens and responsible leaders. All of these qualities involve an engagement with pressing social...
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month with this year's theme, "Embrace Your Voice." As one of the activities, the Alliance for Strengthening Families held an "Embrace Your Voice" Poetry Slam for which they brought in from Apia, Doris Tulifau. Tulifau is an activist with a passion for youth...