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From the Vault: The Queerness of Nature, with Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian
March 31, 2026·1 hr 7 min·4 clips
Freud spent months dissecting hundreds of eels searching for male sex organs, and it may have inspired his theory of castration anxiety.
As heard by us
Queer ecology meets endosymbiosis in a smart, strange case for nature as interdependence all the way down.
A conversation about queer ecology turns into a compact tour of evolution's stranger intimacies, moving from magnetite in animal brains to salmon migration, endosymbiosis, and the bacterial origins that may sit behind some biological structures.
Why you'd press play
If you've ever suspected that nature doesn't follow its own supposed rules, the mitochondria agree.
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