A theory of Chamorro personhood through gradients, explicated by three scenes: two kinds of mothers, a spider in the jungle, and the making of medicine. This peice shows how regonition relies on a multiplied personhood across past, present, and future.

A speculative reading of Guahan’s neurodegenerative epidemic, ancestral wrath, and colonial warfare. “Scale” and “Paralysis” take on a multiplied, scalar meaning that goes beyond the brain.

A comprehensive analysis of the Chamorro WWII Lullaby “Maigu’ Neni” from Rota’s collection of Japanese-era Chamorritas (songs).

A linguistic-anthropological analysis of “hagan-haga”, a term which translates across a range of meanings from ‘blood turtle’ and ‘daughter of blood’ to ‘lineage continuation’ and ‘heritage discovery’.