Please join me in welcoming Perrin Roosevelt-Ireland.

hello i'm perrin roosevelt ireland and i made a 272 page watercolor comic book called poking the squid which is about animal sex do you like talking about sex too Do you like talking about animals too? Then you should stay for this talk.

I've been enjoying being on tour and having some of my events have content warnings.

Elizabeth Colbert referred to my book a couple weeks ago as a work of graphic, graphic nonfiction.

This is true.

If you have an aversion to genitalia, sexual cannibalism, frequent reference to orgasm, a large amount of nerve endings in clitorises or any of the above, now is the time to go.

So I would argue that writing Poking the Squid was for me a way to answer a really long form answer to thousands of questions I have gotten over the course of more than a decade of talking to people about animals.

That's Dr. Ventura.

This is very serious stuff.

It's really serious stuff.

And I will say, I'm in Portland, Oregon, and I was visiting the Japanese garden yesterday.

And I was looking at this dragon flying by.

And I thought to myself, you engage in a lot of forced copulations with females.

It will really change a visit to the park.

to understand the private lives of these animals more and to bring us into allyship with some of these females that are navigating the choices that they want to make in their reproductive lives and when that's taken from them.

You know how to say this.