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Lehua M. Taitano is a queer Chamoru writer and interdisciplinary artist from Yigu, Guåhan (Guam), and co-founder of the art collective Art 25: Art in the Twenty-fifth Century. Her books include Inside Me an Island, A Bell Made of Stones, and the chapbooks appalachiapacific, Sonoma, and Capacity. Taitano’s work investigates modern indigeneity, decolonization, and cultural identity in the context of diaspora.