Science On Tap 7/8 In Vancouver: What We Can Learn From Animal Sex (Photo) - 06/18/26

Date: Wed, July 8th, 2026

Time: 7 pm

Location: Kiggins Theatre Vancouver, Wa

Tickets: $15-$45

Event Website: scienceontaporwa.org/events/kiggins_july_8_animal-sex/

A vast and delightfully diverse journey through the sex lives of animals.

For too long, science has ignored and obscured the multiplicity of animal sexual behavior. With vivid, often funny, and always beautiful watercolor illustrations in a work of graphic nonfiction, artist Perrin Roosevelt Ireland examines how animals express and have sex.

Ireland takes us on a wild biodiversity ride from queerness, infidelity, and divorce to consent, sexual cannibalism, and sex change. She interviews researchers at the edge of this new science and brings readers along as she learns the latest discoveries.

In vivid comics of seahorse dads, polygamous albatross, and gender-fluid barnacles, Poking the Squid illustrates for us a vibrant and erotic earth that we are just beginning to grasp. By illuminating and celebrating animal diversity, she asks us to embrace our own.

Perrin Roosevelt Ireland is an artist and environmentalist. Her work has appeared at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and the Mystic Seaport Museum and in Discover, Nature, Scientific American, and the Rumpus. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Science on Tap is a science lecture series where you can sit back, drink a pint, and enjoy learning. Listen to experts talk about the science in your neighborhood and around the world. You don't have to be a science geek to have fun--all you need is a thirst for knowledge! For more information on this event or about Science on Tap, visit Science on Tap OR WA.