Dyke (geology)

Sabrina Imbler's "Dyke (geology)" blends autofiction, lyric science, and a queer Hawaiian volcano's tale to explore vast, human questions within a coming-out story on a geological scale. This compact narrative addresses navigating life under white supremacy, distinguishing love from fetishization, and enduring heartbreak akin to volcanic eruptions. Imbler's vivid prose subverts traditional scientific language, presenting Earth as a queer, volatile entity, and delving into the complexities of first queer love and the disruptive nature of desire.

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About the Author: Sabrina Imbler
Sabrina Imbler is a half-Chinese writer and dyke based in Brooklyn. She is a staff writer for Atlas Obscura and the recipient of fellowships from Jack Jones Literary Arts, the Asian American Writer’s Workshop, and Paragraph NY. Sabrina wrote the monthly “My Life in Sea Creatures” column at Catapult and her essay collection How Far the Light Reaches is forthcoming from Little, Brown in 2021.
Through intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science writing, and the tale of a newly queer Hawaiian volcano, Sabrina Imbler delivers a coming out story on a geological time scale. This is a small book that tackles large, wholly human questions—what it means to live and date under white supremacy, to never know if one is loved or fetishized, how to navigate fierce desires and tectonic heartbreak through the rise and eventual eruption of a first queer love.

“When two galaxies stray too near each other, the attraction between them can be so strong that the galaxies latch on and never let go. Sometimes the pull triggers head-on wrecks between stars—galactic collisions—throwing bodies out of orbit, seamlessly into space. Sometimes the attraction only creates a giant black hole, making something whole into a kind of missing.” In vivid, tensile prose, Dyke (geology) subverts the flat, neutral language of scientific journals to explore what it means to understand the Earth as something queer, volatile, and disruptive.

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