Perrin Ireland

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How to Be a Better Human · Why should you care about animal sex? (w/ Perrin Ireland) · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

And in the process of starting to interrogate her attraction model, she uncovered and started to actually treat this childhood sexual abuse experience from a person outside her family.

And what she did that I love so much.

And I wrote to her asking if I could include the story in my book and draw about this research because I was so moved by it is she let that shape the questions she asked of animals.

Spiders are very sexually dimorphic.

And so an adult female is often multiple times larger than the male that they will mate with.

And they often cannibalize their mates after they mate with them.

And they get a little snack while they are also starting to incubate eggs.

And she did some research that you can see me spell it out in the book about the attraction models that spiders had, female spiders had, based on who they were exposed to in their youth.

And what I love so much about her research and what she found is that she unapologetically

reclaim that experience and brought it into the lab and let it shape the questions that she wanted to ask of animals, which to me is deeply feminist practice.

And particularly, I feel like I learned about that practice from Black feminism of letting the intersections of our identities shape the questions that we ask in the world.

Yeah.

Really, really beautiful.

And I think also to me, there's something really feminist about being in relationship to nature in that way, letting it speak back to us, letting it imprint back on us and have something to say to us that changes how we understand our own stories in the world.

Thank you for having me, Chris.

It was such a joy.

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