“Second Nature”: Elliot Page on New Film Exploring Animal World Beyond the Binary

A new documentary explores a growing body of scientific research documenting the wide range of gender and sexual diversity found in the animal kingdom, from pregnant male seahorses to matriarchal monkey troops. Second Nature, directed by queer filmmaker Drew Denny, is narrated by Oscar-nominated actor Elliot Page, who says he joined the project because “I was so moved by it and found it so affirming as a trans and queer person.” Learning about animal life beyond binary concepts of sex and gender was life-changing, Denny shares about her inspiration for the film. “I finally felt in my body, for the first time, that I belong here on Earth, just like anybody else.” Featuring interviews with evolutionary biologists and eye-opening footage of the natural world, Second Nature is now showing in major cities across the United States.

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Hey, it's okay, Smeeroy! There's no pressure to come out of the closet just yet! Take your time!  

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Perhaps your problem is that you are hardwired into believing that heterosexuality comes with the right of the other gender to tell you what to do.
just like the old mating rituals of the human and animal world.
I assess you, you impress me, I give you what you want...
seriously thats the base of this heteronomity.
Are we really still like that?
Do we have to???
i don't want to believe it.
Someone who has made up their personality

#heterosexuality #heteronomity

The persistence of heteronormativity is not only due to the weight of social conventions and norms, but also to material conditions of existence: being in a couple means having more resources. Sophie Lewis asserts that the conditions of heterosexuality are inseparable from economic realities: ‘Most women are too overworked, too exhausted by the demands of capitalism and its culture of compulsory enjoyment to even have the opportunity to learn to love.’

Sophie Lewis wrote ‘Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation’

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“I simply do not see why the nation has to have an official sexuality, especially one that authorizes the norm of a violent gentility; that narrows the field of legitimate political action; that supports the amputation of personal complexity into categories of simple identity; that uses cruel and mundane strategies both to promote shame for non-normative populations and to deny them state, federal, and juridical supports because they are deemed morally incompetent to their own citizenship. This is the heterosexuality I repudiate.”

― Lauren Berlant, in "The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship"

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Heterosexuality is a regime of political oppression 🧶

"Just as racism produces race and not the other way round, sexism produces sex through the relationship of domination that reduces the dominated to things or natural objects."
… said Natacha Chetcuti-Osorovitz summarizing Monique Wittig

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#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert

Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?

Hetero Awesome Fest
* 2025 straight pride event in Boise, Idaho, U.S.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetero_Awesome_Fest
Discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Hetero_Awesome_Fest

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Hetero Awesome Fest - Wikipedia

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Having explored the Virtuous #Paedophiles forum’s culture of support, advice, and negotiations, we find that the stigmatised #paedophile character limits both the understanding of being a paedophile and the ability to remain virtuous.
Source (paywall): https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-03734-008

It doen't solve #sexualchildabuse fully, as most child abusers are hetero: https://zeroabuseproject.org/victim-assistance/jwrc/keep-kids-safe/sexuality-of-offenders/

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