Small Kine Book Club: How Far the Light Reaches

A bi-monthly gathering to discuss queer texts with other LGBTQ+ māhū book lovers, and anyone hoping to read more. Every six weeks or so we’ll read widely across genres—everything from memoir and oral history to fiction, poetry, and graphic novels—so long as the content is “queer.” Though we’ll prioritize work by local and Kānaka writers, we’ll also occasionally venture into the horny zeitgeist of books like Game Changers, the series that inspired the hit show Heated Rivalry. About co-hosts/discussion moderators: Mitchell Kuga is a writer and editor who runs Small Kine Gift with his husband. About the book: Weaving the wonders of marine biology with stories of their own family relationships, adaptation, survival, and sexuality, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures is a book that invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live. A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to creatures living in hostile or remote environments. Each essay in their debut collection profiles one such creature: the mother octopus who starves herself while watching over her eggs, the Chinese sturgeon whose migration route has been decimated by pollution and dams, the bizarre Bobbitt worm (named after Lorena), and other uncanny creatures lurking in the deep ocean, far below where the light reaches. Imbler discovers that some of the most radical models of family, community, and care can be found in the sea, from gelatinous chains that are both individual organisms and colonies of clones to deep-sea crabs that have no need for the sun, nourished instead by the chemicals and heat throbbing from the core of the Earth. How Far the Light Reaches can be purchased at at da Shop and Small Kine Gift. If accessibility is an issue please email [email protected] Parking is available across the street in two Kaimukī municipal lots, as well as street parking throughout the Kaimukī area.