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By Steward Kngwakngwalu Theophilus Tonowane

Security at the United Nations is often presented as neutral and technical-defined through doctrines of deterrence, institutional mandates, and strategic balance. Yet for Indigenous Pacific peoples, particularly Indigenous Fijian women, security is profoundly lived: through the legacies of nuclear testing, environmental contamination, militarisation, climate displacement, and exclusion from the very decision-making tables that shape our futures.

I wrote this poem out of curiosity. I tried on some pants too big for my weight I pulled the leather belt tightly to my waist I gasped as I watched my stomach morphed into an empty sink Like a big man , my leather belt packed me up But when daylight came my pants fell to the floor And there we were— naked, deflated, and headless