Description: Lesbian gulls, intersex grizzly bears, gay orgies of manatees, trans clownfish, binary-smashing lichens, sex-changing willow trees, and asexual naked mole rats! Queerness is everywhere in the natural world.

This coloring book celebrates the diversity of animals, plants, fungi, lichen, and coral and the way our beautiful queer communities exist far beyond the realms of human culture.

Verdict: So many of us grew up with wildlife programs and school biology classes that showed only monogamous, heterosexual pairings with the goal of making little baby animals.

Well, prepare to colorize the other side of your unexpected visual reveal today, for author trans woman and ecologist Kes Otter Lieffe has created a most wondrous new coloring book.

Believing that queerness in non-human nature is a profoundly important subject, for there is something about knowing that there are lesbian lizards and kissing zebras that just gives beautiful hope to all that know, and even witness such things, Lieffe ponders here in this new book how given that we all have the knowledge that our communities can be a source of connection, can make us feel less alone, but what if these very same communities extended way beyond human societies?

That said, Lieffe also makes it clear that the point of highlighting queerness in non-human nature is also not just to justify anyone’s existence as trans and queer people with examples from biology, moreover this project aims to show that the beautiful queer community, human and non-human, is something to celebrate in all its glorious diversity.

Thus this book, which grew out of the Queer Animals Coloring Book zine, and which has been living its best life out in the community since 2020, showcases queer animals to color in, such as the American Bison, the Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse, the Hooded Warbler, the Kestrel, and amongst others, the Koala, the Chinstrap Penguin and even the Giraffe.

So bring your brightest colors to learn about and befriend some of the most colorful characters in nature and challenge society’s cis-het norms. This entertaining and educational resource, created by trans woman and ecologist Kes Otter Lieffe, and richly illustrated by Anja Van Geert, builds on the success of their popular Queer Animals Coloring Book zine to liberate our understanding of ourselves and the natural world we belong to.

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