Join the Northwestern Ontario Women’s Centre for a special screening of the award-winning documentary, Second Nature, on Wednesday, August 26th from 6pm-9pm at the Northwestern Ontario Women’s Centre (278 Bay St, Suite 201)
Pay-What-You-Can donations accepted at the door. Bring snacks and join the post-film discussion! RSVP preferred – please contact [email protected] – and drop-ins welcome!
Second Nature is a documentary that follows trans trailblazer Dr Joan Roughgarden as she introduces audiences to some of the 1500+ animal species who engage in same-sex sexual behavior and parenting, change sex, form matriarchies, and more, learning from queer, female, BIPOC and immigrant scientists along the way.
Watch the trailer and learn more about the film HERE.
DOCUMENTARY SYNOPSIS
Did you know that clownfish change sex from male to female? (So if Nemo’s mom had died in real life, his dad could have become his mom!) Did you know that albatross, penguins and swans parent in same sex pairs? Or that bonobos, who are just as closely related to us as chimps, are matriarchal and have same-sex sex every day?!
Narrated by Elliot Page, Second Nature follows trailblazing Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Joan Roughgarden as she meets groundbreaking scientists exploring the 1500+ animal species who engage in same-sex sexual behavior and parenting, change sex, form matriarchies, and more, debunking myths that females are “inferior” and that being queer is “unnatural.”
SECOND NATURE — everything you didn’t learn in high school biology.
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