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 because I do, and I have all this privilege when I move through those spaces of race and class and what I've been taught about my capacity since I was young and all of it, all of it.

then I feel my work is to make that intelligible and enjoyable for as many people as possible.

Comics is such a very utilized, very popular, very maligned underground discipline historically.

And Alison Bechdel and other people that are working with theory in their comics, you know, I'm not the first one to do this by any stretch, but it's exciting to join that community of people to really say, no, we can grapple

intensely with feminist theory, while we're also like swinging some duck dicks.

But I think all the smartest people I talked to in making this book were a little bit like, beware of naturalizing anything, because that will come back to bite us at some point.

So if you look at a

That was really popular with the evangelical right, and it seemed to really naturalize and normalize monogamy.

But then when you talk to the scientists that study emperor penguins, they're like, oh, at least a third of those couples were same-sex pairs.

And the divorce rate in emperor penguins is 86%.

So it's like the minute we try to grasp anything –

to land on an answer, we're going to be in trouble kind of soon.

You know, I had a conversation with the science writer Riley Black, who's an out trans woman at the beginning of my process when I was doing research for the seahorse section of the book.

And seahorses have become popular with trans dads.

On Instagram, they use this hashtag seahorse dad.

as a way to find companionship in the journey of identifying as male and developing a body inside your body.

And seahorses do that, and they teach us so much about pregnancy, which I talk about in the book.

But Riley Black told me in that conversation that she and her partner have a meme that they really love, where in one panel—it's a comic—

In one panel, a trans person is trying to talk to a cis person about gender, and they're like in a nursery classroom, you know, with playing with building blocks.

And in the next panel, a trans person is talking to a trans person about gender, and it's like a dissertation level thesis.

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