Episode 16- Queerness in Marine Biology with Herring Gut Coastal Science Center

In today's episode of Thinking OUT Loud, Ellie Roy (she/her, Communications Coordinator at OUT Maine) chats with Katie Liberman (she/her, Science Educator at Herring Gut Coastal Science Center) about queerness and transness within the field of marine biology. Are there queer sea creatures out there? Do any of them challenge human understandings of the gender binary? What can we learn from marine life, and the natural world as a whole, when we identify these behaviors? Let's find out!Resources discussed in the episode:Herring Gut Coastal Science Center's websiteScientific American opinion article on how common it is for animals to have same-sex pairings500 Queer Scientists - "A visibility campaign for LGBTQ+ people and their allies working in STEM and STEM-supporting jobs"OUT Maine's terminology guide