Queer Ducks is so informative, enlightening, and FUN! This book explores animals who go beyond the typically male/female pairings in regards to sex. Yes, there are animals out there who choose to get with animals of the same sex! 

This book discusses the behaviors of several different animals who have been observed in the wild demonstrating same-sex sexual behaviors. The author describes how so many animals are bisexual and a lot of people don’t realize it. I love this quote from the book: 

“Maybe we don’t go about learning heterosexuality or homosexuality - maybe we just forget about our bisexuality.” 

I love that way of thinking! Imagine a world where bisexuality is the default. 

Queer Ducks is very easy to digest. I flew through it! The way it is written makes it very accessible. And it’s YA, so the teens in your life can read it as well! The physical book has comics at the beginning of each chapter and drawings throughout. The audiobook (which I paired with the physical book) is great too, and does a good job of incorporating the comics and drawings. 

Send this book to your great aunt who says that queerness is not natural, or that the whole purpose of sex is to reproduce. Animals are out there in the wild choosing same sex relations because they want to! Just for the fun of it! Nothing more natural than that. I’ll leave you with this final quote that I loved: 

“What I am saying is that we can no longer argue that humans are alone in their queerness, that nonheteronormative human sexualities and gender identities are unnatural because they don’t exist in the rest of the animal kingdom. That position is simply not valid. Queerness is a well established and fundamental part of nature.”