In this issue, fabulist painter Grace Milk pivots to doll-making; revisiting the canon of author Lois-Ann Yamanaka, who mixes provocative narratives with Pidgin; the local Okinawan women reclaiming hajichi, the once-stigmatized, now-celebrated traditional tattoos of their ancestors; a photo essay exploring island boyhood by photographer Christian Navarro; and a mele-making excursion by wa‘a for the 50th anniversary of Hōkūleʻa.