My Life in Sea Creatures
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How the Immortal Jellyfish Helps Me Rewrite My Queer Childhood
I have no desire to live forever. But what I would give to return to adolescence and do it over, even once! To kiss who I wanted to kiss, not settling for her brother.
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A Queer Love Story at the Bottom of the Sea
What the Venus flower basket and a Norwegian bildungsroman can teach us about queer adolescence.
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The Strangest Fish in the World and Its Literary Twin
There are certain wonders that disappear in translation.
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How the Hairy-Chested Yeti Crab Taught Me to Survive Trump’s America
“There’s definitely a ton of colored people here!” a white guy told me. “I mean, people of color. That’s what I said, right?”
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Ernst Haeckel, the Eugenicist Who Designed My Tattoos
Science is not now, nor has ever been, objective, fair, or inclusive.
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How an Octopus Helps Me Think About My Mother’s Eating Disorder
On “the animal kingdom’s bravest and most vigilant mother.”