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Yumi Sakugawa is a second-generation Japanese-Okinawan-American interdisciplinary artist, and the author of several published books including I THINK I AM IN FRIEND-LOVE WITH YOU, YOUR ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO BECOMING ONE WITH THE UNIVERSE and THE LITTLE BOOK OF LIFE HACKS. She has also been published in Bitch, BuzzFeed, The Best American Non-Required Reading 2014, DUM DUM ZINE, and other publications, and exhibited multimedia works at the Japanese American National Museum and the Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building. A Sagittarius sun and an Aquarius rising with a midheaven in Scorpio, she currently lives in Los Angeles. @yumisakugawa

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