Mayli had never intended to become a collector. In the Queer Ecology Workshop’s zine library, tucked between a manifesto on mycelial networks and an ode to sea sponge reproduction, she found the term: sperm suckers . It wasn’t an insult. It was a biological reality for certain species of hermaphroditic flatworms and sea slugs.
Mayli smiled. She wasn’t in the tank anymore. She was on the other side of the glass. sperm suckers - mayli