Xenogenesis and the Thing by Eric White

I'm curious more than just this question of being engaged in a non-consensual relationship with an invader but I don't know I spend a lot of time thinking reflecting on this essay by Eric White called Theerotics of Becoming Xenogenesis and the Thing. He's looking at the ways that each of these works of science fiction acts as a lens through which we can observe a changing relationship between people and the notion of evolution. There's like something else there's like a harmonic of that in the conversation around the work of Lynn Margulis and realizing not only that there's this like microbiome that's you and not you but also that each of your cells is a compound organism made