EPISODE · Apr 21, 2024
It's here, it's queer, it's the ocean!
from Out of the Blue · host James Whitmore, Sabrina Imbler
Sea creatures might seem to lead very strange lives compared to our own. But maybe we're just as weird. In their new book, US writer and journalist Sabrina Imbler fuses science and memoir to compare the lives of sea creatures to their own. Highlights include how deep sea yeti crabs are like queer night clubs, and jelly-like salps are like queer communities. In this episode, we discovered how queer the oceans really are.Sabrina's book is How Far The Light Reaches, published in Australia as My Life In Sea Creatures.
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Sea creatures might seem to lead very strange lives compared to our own. But maybe we're just as weird. In their new book, US writer and journalist Sabrina Imbler fuses science and memoir to compare the lives of sea creatures to their own. Highlights include how deep sea yeti crabs are like queer night clubs, and jelly-like salps are like queer communities. In this episode, we discovered how queer the oceans really are.Sabrina's book is How Far The Light Reaches, published in Australia as My Life In Sea Creatures.
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It's here, it's queer, it's the ocean!
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