Cover Photo: Tim Mossholder via Unsplash
Tim Mossholder via Unsplash

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.



Life number 1.


Life number 1.

Free Willy


Life number 2, as I imagine it.

Free Willy

The New York Times


Lives number 3, 4, 5, etc., as I imagine them.

Sabrina Imbler is a staff writer for Defector Media, a worker-owned site, where they cover creatures and the natural world. Their book, How Far the Light Reaches, is out now with Little, Brown. Their chapbook, Dyke (geology) is out now with Black Lawrence Press.