Posts tagged animals
genderqueer
beyond the binaries
Queer or polyamorous dolphin sex is represented as an amusing oddity and as outside of so-called normative sexuality. Nonreproductive and nonheterosexual behaviour, however, runs counter to ideas of nature and procreation, or, in other words, the `natural’ order. Rather than saving sex for reproduction, it seems that dolphins are `playfully erotic’ and androgynous. For ecotourism operators to apply their own meanings to dolphins, dolphins must be sufficiently like humans to allow a sense of connection and sufficiently different to be wild and `other’.
Isabella Rossellini, on Noah’s Ark in her Green Porno series for the Sundance Channel. She asks, “How did Noah do it? Hermaphrodite, transvestite? Transgender, transsexual? Polygamy, monogamy? Homosexual, bisexual? How can it all be heterosexual?”
i love this series.
(via janetmock)
Isabella shows us some of the sexual diversity among animals: not all species have two distinct sexes, not all individuals remain the same sex forever, not all mate with the “opposite” sex… in brief, she questions the heterocentrism and ciscentrism in our view of animals.
Today I met a dog that loves women and hates men. It didn’t know what to think of me.
Half-male, half-female butterfly emerges from cocoon at museum exhibit
“The butterfly is an extremely rare half-male, half-female bilateral Gynandromorph, which means that it appears to be male on one side but female on the other, according to the Guardian. Dual-sex animals are a rare occurrence in nature, but it’s especially rare for such a creature to be so uniformly bilateral. This butterflyappears perfectly split down the middle, with smoky black colors on its male side, but with visible flecks of blue, red and tortoiseshell on its female side. It also has one antenna longer than the other, a single male clasp on its abdomen, and its genitalia are also cut half and half — the male and female reproductive organs are fused right down the middle.”
(link submitted by hollandinthe801)
Trans Service Dog Handler | Not Another Aiden
A post on how being trans intersects with having a service dog for epilepsy and depression with dissociative episodes.
A display on animal sexuality at the Museum of Sex. I HIGHLY recommend MoSex to anyone who’s nearby and 18+. It’s an amazing museum and their gift store is also full of fun things (all sorts of sex toys plus books, condoms, etc.)
Bryan’s Proud of Gay Animals (That’s Gay episode)
“Think about all the other animals that are gay. Did you know that dolphins are just gay sharks? Peacocks —clearly drag queens—, reindeer —they fly, and one lights up (that’s a fact)—, bears (duh), butterflies, and of course cockroaches. They’re here, they’re queer, get used to it.”
