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For Yui Nishikawa, that silence is home.

Born in Okinawa to a Guyanese mother and Japanese father, Nishikawa was raised between naval bases. Her childhood was a collage of overlapping radio frequencies—U.S. Navy chatter, Japanese enka ballads, Calypso broadcasts bleeding through shortwave. She learned to hear borders as acoustic events. i--- Caribbean -042816-146- -042816-551- Yui Nishikawa

And then the line goes silent. Not a drop. A dash. For Yui Nishikawa, that silence is home