Jayashree Srinivasan is a microbiologist working with bacterial and fungal cultures. She loves her work.

"Changes in the shape, size, movement, respiration rates, and pH of little cultures of fungal or bacterial organisms tell us things about how they are doing. We refer to them as 'happy cultures' or 'sad cultures'."

Jayashree cares a great deal about how people are doing, too, and the complex effects of human cultures on queerness.

17 May is International Day Against LGBTQIA+ Discrimination. As a queer microbiologist, she puts herself out there to help reassure younger people safe spaces exist.

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