Introduction: On Queer Animals

This issue of Transpositiones.Journal for Transdisciplinary and Intermedial Cultural Studies proposes to significantlyadd to the growing body of knowledge that engages twodistinct yet deeply interconnected areas of academic debateanimal studies and queer studies.The concept of queer ecology has gained agrowing interest in the academia over the last decade, highlighting the importance of intersectional understanding of ecological, multispecies and sexual exclusions and entanglements.It challenges conventional ecological perspectives by examining how gender, sexuality, and social norms intersect with environmental concerns, and calls attention to the fluidity of sexual and gender expressions in non-humanspecies.However, the phenomenas urrounding animals/animality, although present in these speculations, still demand properrecognition. 1 So far, intersections between queerness and animals havebeen touched upon -for the most part -in aliteral sense, namely by analyzing non-heteronormativep ractices and behaviors in other species.We believethat these considerations, although significant, do not fully exploit the theoretical potential of the concept of queerness.This issue is aimed at closing this gap.We comprehend queerness as overarching theoretical concept that questions and contestsexisting norms -and that is, as ac onsequence, potentially useful for reimagining relations with (and practices towards) nonhuman animals.Multispeciesqueerness as we understand