(FOX NEWS) – A professor in the United Kingdom suggested that people may find a “perverse joy” in celebrating the “queerness” of birds incapable of reproduction because of pollution.
The Free Press last week highlighted research conducted by Anne Pollock, the head of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London, who wrote that “posing intersex characteristics” as a metric of an environment’s health is a move “steeped in heteronormativity.”
“I want to suggest that we depathologize queer animals, even when that queerness is the product of human-produced toxins in the environment, and even when it inhibits animals’ reproductive capacity,” Pollock wrote in a paper called “Queering Endocrine Disruption.”
