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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks

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Historian #histsci #queerhistory. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE (Yale, 2026). Curator of queeroxford.info. LGBTQ+ life & culture. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him/they. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.

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Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hey everyone I know its not even October yet BUT if you're already planning what you're doing for LGBTQIA+ History Month in 2027 (February here in the UK) and you're looking for a speaker or events, drop me a line :) The diary for the new year is starting to book up...
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Whipple Museum @whipplemuseum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
✨ Celebrate Black History Month this October at the Whipple Museum! ✨ Black History of Science Tours Various dates throughout October All ages, free entry 🎟️ Book your free tickets via our website #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryOfScience #WhippleMuseum #HistoryOfScience #CambridgeMuseums
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Midlands Rainbow @midlandsrainbow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Birmingham Museums to celebrate Pride in STEM #PrideInSTEM #STEM #LGBTQSTEM #Birmingham midlandsrainbow.wixsite.com/lgbtq/post/b...
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Birmingham Museums to celebrate Pride in STEM
Birmingham Museums are set to celebrate Pride in STEM Day with an event at the Think Tank.
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Humanities & Social Sciences @hss.springernature.com · 28/09/2026
This Palgrave Macmillan book presents a novel approach to the history of science by moving beyond the traditional focus on scientific authorities, institutions, and informants. bit.ly/3V6cn2W 💙📚🗃️
Emotions, Science, and Gender, 1800-1960
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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And spotted both @astroroyalscot.bsky.social excellent How to Design a Universe (which I’m about to finish on the train) and in a few of my TBR, there’s @rossbrooks.co.uk Darwin and the Queer Origin of Life
A volume of Catherine Heymans’ 
How to Design a UniverseTwo volumes of Darwin and the queer origin of life
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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Putting the Fabulous back into Astrophysics!! (And did not break any bones!) bookshop.org/p/books/invi...
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 27/09/2026
Wonderful start for Bethany and Nancy! #Strictly 💃🌈💃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdO4... #tv #dance
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Bethany and Nancy have Quickstepped their way to their THRONES! ✨ BBC Strictly 2026
YouTube video by BBC Strictly Come Dancing
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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This looks like a cool queer history conference!
Call for Papers: Queer Rural History Symposium
Date: Monday 15th March 2027
Venue: The Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, RG1 5EX
Lunch to be provided for all attendees
About the Symposium
Until recently, studies of queer history have focused almost exclusively on the urban sphere, given the greater availability of archival material evidencing queer lives in the city. The few queer rural histories which have been popularised in public consciousness are those of aristocrats in country homes, such as Anne Lister and Vita Sackville-West. However, it goes without saying that people with dissonant sexualities and gender identities lived and loved in all corners of society throughout the centuries, including the countryside. As such, there is a growing appetite for broader research into this area. How did queer people meet those who were like-minded in regions of scarce population density? What forms did their relationships take against a backdrop of criminality and stigma? And how did rural attitudes towards queer people differ to those in the city?
This one day symposium aims to bring together researchers of all backgrounds, and at any stage of their work, to share ideas and discuss methods on this emerging field of study. It works towards the goal of not just filling gaps in academic knowledge that exist for both rural history and queer history, but also to show queer people living in the countryside today that there is, and always has been, a heritage and a place for them.Proposals
We invite proposals on themes such as, but not limited to, the following:
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Queer histories of the working and middle classes in rural areas
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Methodologies for recovering queer rural histories, such as the use of museum and archive collections
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Queer rural networks: how they met and flourished
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The response of rural communities to queer relationships
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Migration of same sex couples from the city to the countryside and vice versa
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The ways in which museums and archive services respond to queer rural history
If you would like to submit a proposal, please send an abstract (max 250 words) along with a short bio (50 words) to symposium organisers Tim Jerrome and Esther Rutter at t.jerrome1@uni.brighton.ac.uk. It is preferable that these come in the form of a Word document attached to the email. The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Sunday 6th December 2026.
If you would like to attend the symposium without presenting a paper, let us know via the above email as we need to ensure we do not go above capacity.
We are currently applying for funding to help cover travel costs for those who need it. Please let us know if you would like to attend but would require assistance with travel costs to do so. Priority will be given to attendees where cost would otherwise be a barrier to participation.
Many thanks to Rainbow Canopy (The LGBTQ+ network of Forestry England), the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund, and the staff at The MERL for helping us to fund and organise the symposium.
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 25/09/2026
I turned up at Waterstones in Worthing to sign some new stock of QUEER ORIGINS and was absolutely bowled over to be greeted by this in prime position in the shop window! It's so uplifting when booksellers get behind one's book. 💜🌈📚🦋🗃️ #book #books #booksky #authors #reading #histsci #queerhistory
Photo taken from outside a shop window. There's a copy of Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science by Ross Brooks displayed upright. Next to it is some text about the book in a wooden frame. It reads: 'Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life' 'Dr Ross Brooks' 'What did Darwin and Linnaeus really think about sex? In this iconoclastic history, Brooks shows how queerness was at the heart of evolutionists’ thinking about the natural world. From hermaphroditic slugs and sex-changing birds to male pigeon lactation, pregnant male seahorses, and bisexual pigs, Darwin and his fellow naturalists were privately in awe of nature’s sexual diversity. These encounters fundamentally shaped their understanding of plants, animals, and humans, even if they were never fully acknowledged in their published writings. Brooks radically exposes us to the hidden queerness of Georgian and Victorian science—and shows how nature has always been more sexually diverse than we’ve been told.'
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 25/09/2026
When is the Harvest Moon? From London to Tokyo to New York, key timings for the full Moon across the world this weekend. 🔭🌕🐺 www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/when-is... #nightsky #fullmoon #harvestmoon
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When is the Harvest Moon? From London to Tokyo to New York, key timings for the full Moon this weekend | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Key rise times for the Harvest Moon 2026, plus quick beginner-friendly tips for those wanting to make the most of the full Moon.
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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 24/09/2026
At Kharkiv’s Gwara Media, young reporters document Russian attacks while navigating danger, discrimination and an uncertain financial future.
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Russia’s War on Ukraine, Recorded by the Women and Queer Journalists Living Through It
The city of Kharkiv lies 19 miles from Russia’s western border. Nestled within this historic and cultural urban center is a small news outlet that symbolizes so much of what Putin intends to erase: th...
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 24/09/2026
Our understanding of queer natural history goes back much longer than you might think. www.iflscience.com/just-how-que...
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 24/09/2026
Lovely plate showing two gynandromorph large yeoman butterflies (Cirrochroa aoris). One is shown from above (top) and beneath (centre). From an 1880 article by English entomologist J.O. Westwood in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 🌈🦋🗃️ @biodivlibrary.bsky.social #histsci #sts
Colour plate depicting three images of large yeoman butterflies in a vertical row. They are all gynandromorphs, exhibiting different patterning in yellows, browns, and white on left and right sides. Source: Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Invisible Rainbows is officially out in the States! (Should I have given the eagle laser eyes?) bookshop.org/p/books/invi...
A 3D render of the book with an American flag, a bald eagle, fireworks and the Statue of Liberty in the background
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'The records have been digitised and indexed by the genealogy company Ancestry, which has partnered with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London.' Leaps and bounds forward in our understanding of the histories of the British enslaved. #Skystorians
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Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
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Kristina 🏳️‍⚧️🌙 @nightkristina.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Pride Turbostar - Refurbished Crosscountry 170103, their refurbished pride Class 170/1 with the new pride livery, at Birmingham New Street after a day of shuttling back and forth to Nuneaton. 🗓️ 2026-09-20
170103 at Birmingham New Street
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Medusa Salt Poet @medusa-salt-poet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@rossbrooks.co.uk - am reading your new book "Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life" (loving it!) and am so curious about what prevented Bentham from being published in the early 1800s. Do we know? Sounds like he was a savvy thinker and I'm wondering if he attempted to be published.
From "Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life" by Ross Brooks, chapter "DARWIN'S QUEER GHOSTS, 1651-1869" unblurred text reads, "Had Bentham's writings on sexual irregularities been published, queer history might now read very differently."
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 21/09/2026
📣 A date for your diaries . . . I’m looking forward to returning to Oxford's Museum of Natural History on Friday 6 November, 6–7:30pm. It’s free, and everyone’s welcome—but booking is essential. 🌈🦋🗃️ www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/darwin... #histsci #sts #queerhistory #Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social
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Darwin's Queer Theory
Queer ecology is a vibrant and rapidly evolving field, exploring the astonishing diversity of sexes and sexual repertoires found among plants and animals. For some, this has been a revelation.
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 20/09/2026
I just stumbled across this: the cover design for the forthcoming Japanese edition of A Little Gay Natural History by the brilliant @joshlukedavis.com. It's gorgeous — congratulations, Josh! 🏳️‍🌈📚🦋 www.kagakudojin.co.jp/book/b102031... #books #booksky #reading #queer #nature
Book cover featuring two gynandromorph butterflies with brown and blue wings against a vibrant abstract watercolour background. The title of the book, the author's name, and the translators name are written in colourful Japanese lettering. The publisher's name appears at the bottom.
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IFLScience @iflscience.com · 19/09/2026
Read an exclusive excerpt of his new book, as Dr Ross Brooks takes us through the queerness of Darwin. www.iflscience.com/meet-the-aut...
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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
a wee bit narcissistic, but I never get tired of seeing Belfastmen on the shelves!
A man stands next to a bookshelf containing a copy of his book
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 19/09/2026
DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE . . . THE MOVIE! One of the less lovely things about publishing a book is the amount of AI-generated spam one receives. I've had several offers to turn Queer Origins into a film. This one even came with a script! 🌈📚🎞️🦋 #books #booksky #reading #writing #authors
Screenshot from email. It reads: "Hi Ross,

What immediately stood out to me about *Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life* is the tension between the neat, familiar story of sex in nature and the much stranger reality your research uncovers.

The image of Darwin and Linnaeus encountering hermaphroditic slugs, sex-changing birds, male pigeons producing milk, pregnant seahorses, and bisexual pigs gives the book an unusually compelling visual question: what happens when nature refuses to behave according to the categories we expect it to?

That gave me an idea for a short cinematic piece built around the moment those assumptions begin to break apart."Screenshot of email: "**Here’s the vision:**

Black screen.

**“We think we know how sex works in nature.”**

A Victorian naturalist's notebook opens.

Male bird displaying.

Female watching.

A neat illustration of courtship.

**MALE. FEMALE. COURTSHIP.**

Everything looks orderly.

Then the page turns.

A hermaphroditic slug.

A bird changing sex."Screenshot from email. It reads "A male seahorse carrying eggs.

A male pigeon feeding its young.

A pig.

Another page.

The neat categories begin to disappear.

The sound of pen scratching across paper becomes faster.

**“But nature was never this simple.”**

Darwin studies an illustration.

Linnaeus turns a page.

Cabinets of specimens.

Botanical drawings.

Animal skeletons."Screenshot from email. It reads: "Handwritten observations.

And everywhere, examples that refuse to fit the conventional picture.

Then the screen goes completely black.

**SEX.**

Pause.

**GENDER.**

Pause.

**NATURE.**

Then:

**“What if evolution was always stranger than the story we were told?”**

The imagery shifts from Victorian illustrations into modern scientific footage and back again, connecting the observations of nineteenth-century naturalists to the much larger question your book raises about how science has understood sex and sexuality.

And finally:

**“Nature has never been as tidy as we imagined.”**

*Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life*

I think that could capture what makes your book so intriguing without reducing it to a simple “history of sex.” It puts the reader inside the discovery itself, where every new observation challenges an assumption they thought they understood."
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
AHHH, BLUESKY! DON'T YOU DARE BE SOUR! CLAP FOR YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS! AND FEEL THE POWER!!! #Booksky It's BUY A BOOK FRIDAY, yes it is! The rules are simple, you see a book by myself or one Bluesky's talented artists, YOU BUY THAT BOOK! Help support us and enrich yourself! 🧵 BELOW, LET'S GO!!!
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 17/09/2026
Fun day signing copies of QUEER ORIGINS in London bookshops. Check out Foyles on Charing Cross Road, Hatchards on Piccadilly, and Waterstones on Gower Street, where I was thrilled to find the book had been selected for a special mention! 💜🌈📚🦋🗃️ #booksky #histsci #queerhistory @yalebooks.bsky.social
Copies of Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science by Ross Brooks front-faced on a wooden bookshelf. Underneath the front copy is a hand-written recommendation from a bookseller. It reads: 'Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A wonderful queering of science by the brilliant Ross Brooks. Examining how scientists including Darwin always knew our natural world was queer.'
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Queerazon.com @queerazon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life by Ross Brooks A revelatory history of sex, gender, and sexual diversity in science, exploring how Darwin, Linnaeus, and other naturalists encountered a far queerer natural world than their published theories often acknowledged. buff.ly/5k4ueaL
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Sixto-Juan Zavala @sjzavala.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I led walks at Walthamstow Wetlands exploring connections between queerness & nature in July. With a newly designed & illustrated map showing plants in the area with queer interpretations. A collaboration between Waltham Forest Pride 2026, @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social, & @queerbotany.bsky.social.
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Anya Jabour @herstoryprof.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
My new book, MATTERS OF SEX: KATHARINE BEMENT DAVIS AND AMERICA'S FIRST SEXUAL REVOLUTION, is forthcoming from NYU Press in November and available for pre-order now! Get a sneak peek here (link to pre-order in comments).
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How a survey of over 2,000 women in the 1920s changed the way Americans thought about female sexuality
A century ago, a pioneering sex researcher challenged the idea that respectable women did not – and should not – experience sexual desire or have sex, except to please men or have children.
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 15/09/2026
It’s heartening to see QUEER ORIGINS finding its way into libraries — just in time for the new academic year! 🏳️‍🌈📚🗃️ Academics & students: if your uni library doesn’t have it yet, please ask them to stock it. 🙏 #books #booksky #libraries #lovelibraries #librarians #science #histsci #queerhistory
Screenshot from Library Hub Discover showing UK libraries now holding Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life. there are six listed: University of Birmingham Libraries, The Linnean Society of London, The London Library, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, and University of Oxford Libraries.
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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New on NOTCHES: Queer Crafts: LGBTQ+ Identity, Politics, and Cultural Expression by Daniel Fountain. Fountain discusses how LGBTQ+ artists and makers use craft to explore identity, embodiment, community, and queer worldmaking. 🔗 Link to full interview: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4XT #NOTCHES #MaterialCulture
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Queer Crafts: LGBTQ+ Identity, Politics, and Cultural Expression
Craft is not simply the act of making; it is a powerful site of identity, politics, and cultural expression.
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Matthew Waites (he or they) @matthewwaites.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Online book launch for Colonialisms and Queer Politics, eds S Corrêa, G Gomes da Costa & M Waites. Fri 18th Sept. Hosted @sxpolitics.bsky.social w. Federal University of Pernambuco & @uofgsps.bsky.social 9am US EST, 10am Brazil, 2pm UK, 3pm CET, 4pm Turkey. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Image of book cover for: Colonialisms and Queer Politics: Sexualities, Genders and Unsettling Colonialities, published by Oxford University Press. Book cover shows extract from the Cantino Planisphere, a 1502 map made by a Portuguese cartographer, showing a Eurocentric view of the Atlantic world as the European imperial expansion began.
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Jack Shoulder @jackshoulder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Hotties in Art Book Tour kicks off properly this week, with a signing at the fierce, fabulous and fantastic Category is... In Glasgow. I'll be there from 1400 on Saturday 19 September - pop in and say hi and pick up a personalised copy of your new favourite art book.
An eflyer category is on 19/9
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 12/09/2026
I wrote this when QUEER ORIGINS was published in the UK. I'm reposting it now the book's out in Canada and the US. Read about the natural wonder of sexual polymorphism—and why Richard Dawkins' view of Darwin needs amending. 🌈📚🦋🗃️ yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwin-... #books #booksky #histsci #queerhistory
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Darwin’s Queer Inheritance - Yale University Press London darwin
Darwin is significantly queerer than we’ve been led to believe. While his writings are sometimes invoked to insist that sex should be understood in binary Darwin is significantly queerer than we’ve be...
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Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Queer Ecology and the Supernatural Symposium and Exhibition
Fearon Hall Community Centre, Rectory Road, Loughborough, LE11 1PL, 18 September 2026, 9:00am - 1:00pm
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
buy @rossbrooks.co.uk's book! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life
A revelatory history of sex, gender, and science from Linnaeus to DarwinWhat did Darwin and Linnaeus really think about sex? In print, their descriptions of ...
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026
AHHH, BLUESKY! DON'T YOU DARE BE SOUR! CLAP FOR YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS! AND FEEL THE POWER!!! #Booksky It's BUY A BOOK FRIDAY, yes it is! The rules are simple, you see a book by myself or one Bluesky's talented artists, YOU BUY THAT BOOK! Help support us and enrich yourself! 🧵 BELOW, LET'S GO!!!
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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 09/09/2026
From 11-13 September, the Bodleian will open up spaces and show off collections not usually accessible to the public, for #OxfordOpenDoors 2026! Enjoy tours, storytelling, a Victorian printing press, and MUCH more. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/oxfor… We can't wait to see you!
An open gateway at the Bodleian Library with a silhouette walking through it
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esQrever @esqrever.com · 10/09/2026
A natureza nunca foi assim tão binária. 🦋🐟🐦 Um novo livro recupera o lado menos contado das observações de Darwin: peixes com funções reprodutivas masculinas e femininas, borboletas polimórficas e aves com papéis sexuais invertidos.
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A natureza nunca foi assim tão binária: o lado queer das observações de Darwin
Durante muito tempo, a biologia foi usada para sustentar uma ideia aparentemente simples: existem dois sexos claramente definidos, com características, comportamentos e funções igualmente distintas. Tudo o que escapasse a esse modelo podia ser apresentado como exceção, desvio ou até como algo «contra a natureza». A própria natureza conta uma história bastante diferente. Peixes com funções reprodutivas masculinas e femininas, animais que mudam de sexo, borboletas nas quais indivíduos do mesmo sexo apresentam formas muito diferentes ou aves onde são as fêmeas que competem e os machos que cuidam das crias são apenas alguns exemplos.
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 10/09/2026
A leading historian of science just sent me this pic, with QUEER ORIGINS nestled among some of the most respected books about Darwin. It's a huge compliment — I'm quite emotional! 😊 Do send me photos if you spot the book out 'in the wild' . . . 🏳️‍🌈📚🗃️🦋 #books #booksky #reading #Darwin #histsci #sts
Row of books on a bookshelf. They are, from left to right, Charles Darwin: Voyaging by Janet Browne; Darwin by Janet Browne; Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection by Evelleen Richards; Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life by Ross Brooks; Life's Splendid Drama by Peter J. Bowler; and Darwin Deleted by Peter J. Bowler.
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Joe Jukes @joejukes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reminder that I produce a podcast called Space & Sexuality! So far we have covered: - Pride and politics in Copenhagen, - Queer suburbia - Queer architectures - Queer-trans ecologies - Queer organising in Amsterdam - and more! Listen on Spotify open.spotify.com/show/033DRqR... 🌈🎓
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Space & Sexuality
Podcast · Joe Jukes · Welcome to Space & Sexuality, a new podcast series that brings together leading and emerging scholars in the field of queer geographies to explore cutting-edge research at the in...
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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Some fascinating Collaborative Doctoral Awards on offer here at the BL, including a great history of sexuality/book history/library history project relating to the Rund Collection of 19th/20thC erotic books and ephemera www.bl.uk/services/res...
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Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Awards
Fully-funded and jointly supervised studentships across four developing research areas.
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Scene LGBTQ+ Magazine @scenemag.co.uk · 09/09/2026
"The natural world is gloriously queer," said Ellie Jones, director of Channel Islands Pride.
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Channel Islands Pride launches ‘Queer Nature Trail’ celebrating LGBTQ+ diversity in the animal kingdom
Channel Islands Pride is inviting islanders to discover nature's queer side with the launch of a new woodland trail highlighting same-sex relationships, gender diversity and fluidity across the natura...
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Museum for Art in Wood @museumforartinwood.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Museum for Art in Wood Open Call for Submissions: Queering Wood Craft (2027) We're seeking artists to submit work to our 2027 exhibition, Queering Woodcraft, highlighting the work of queer-identified makers working in wood. Deadline: September 15, 2026 museumforartinwood.org/call-to-arti...
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 08/09/2026
DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE is now published in the UK, Canada, and the US! 🏳️‍🌈📚🦋🗃️ Every recommendation helps get this extraordinary history into more hands, so please ask your favourite libraries and bookstores to stock it. Thank you! 🙏 #booksky #reading #libraries #histsci #queerhistory
A copy of Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science standing vertically on two others placed horizontally, with a vase of flowers behind them, on a table of other books. There's a bookmark visible in the vertical copy.
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In Sex Is a Spectrum, @anthrofuentes.bsky.social explains why human biology is far more expansive than the simple categories of female and male. Now available in #paperback! Learn more: buff.ly/TDUQZ3N #Biology
Sex Is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary by Agustín Fuentes
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Very happy to receive my first paperback copy!
The Truth About Empire: Real Histories of British Colonialism, edited by Alan Lester
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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Probably not obscure knowledge, but it was news to me that Alfred Russel Wallace's grave is adorned with a large, phallic fossil tree. Least subtle tomb since Jules Verne (check that out too). Discussed here (wallacefund.myspecies.info/fossil-tree). Photo by George W. Beccaloni, CC BY 3.0.
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LGBTQ Books & Persons @svukic.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In nature. LGBTQ, everywhere, always. #LGBTQGlobalOdyssey #GayBooks #BooksSky @rossbrooks.co.uk
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LGBTQ Books & Persons @svukic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Queer fauna. Everywhere in nature. LGBTQ, everywhere, always. #LGBTQGlobalOdyssey #GayBooks #BooksSky #LGBTQ
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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
come to the archive where you can look at historic doodles of a guy fighting two swans
An 18th century ledger showing payments and numbers in a column. In the centre of the page is a crude illustration of two large birds(?) with their tails going up in a spiral, one with spots, the other white. A figure smoking a pipe and wearing a hat and boots is grabbing one of them by the neck. There is a mysterious box next to him which looks a lot like a Looney Tunes style TNT detonator, though obviously that would be ahistorical given the perfectly sensible composition of the rest of the doodle.
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 04/09/2026
AHHH, BLUESKY! DON'T YOU DARE BE SOUR! CLAP FOR YOUR FAVORITE AUTHORS! AND FEEL THE POWER!!! #Booksky It's BUY A BOOK FRIDAY, yes it is! The rules are simple, you see a book by myself or one Bluesky's talented artists, YOU BUY THAT BOOK! Help support us and enrich yourself! 🧵 BELOW, LET'S GO!!!
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