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Everything you didn’t learn in high school biology.

Did you know that clownfish change sex from male to female? (So if Nemo’s mom had died in real life, his dad would 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?!

Debunking myths that females are “inferior” and being queer is “unnatural,” Second Nature follows trailblazing trans Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Joan Roughgarden as she meets other groundbreaking scientists exploring the 1500+ animal species who engage in same-sex sexual behavior and parenting, change sex, form matriarchies, and more…

Second Nature — everything you didn’t learn in high school biology.

Screenings

SNEAK PEEK

Queer Rhapsody at Billy Wilder Theater
Los Angeles, CA

July 19, 2024 @ 7:30pm

WORK IN PROGRESS SCREENING

Natural History Museum
Los Angeles, CA

April 5, 2024 @ 7:45pm

SNEAK PEEK

Frameline Film Festival
San Francisco, CA

June 23, 2024 @ 4:30pm

Cast

  • Elliot Page

    Narrator

  • Dr. Joan Roughgarden

    Evolutionary Biologist

  • Dr. Patricia Brennan

    Evolutionary Biologist

  • Dr. Amy Parish

    Primatologist, Anthropologist

  • Dr. Joseph Graves

    Evolutionary Biologist

  • Dr. Frans de Waal

    Primatologist, Anthropologist

  • River Suh

    High School Science Teacher

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