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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. 💜🌈📚🦋

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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 . . . 🌈 📚 🎞️ 🦋

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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. 🙏

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I wrote this blog when QUEER ORIGINS was published in the UK. I'm reposting it now that the book is out in Canada and the US.

Read about the natural wonder of sexual polymorphism — and why Richard Dawkins' view of Darwin needs amending. 🌈📚🦋

Darwin's Queer Inheritance: https://yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwin-queer-inheritance/

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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! 😊

Now that it's published in the UK, Canada, and the US, do please send me photos if you spot the book out 'in the wild' . . . 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🦋

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DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE is now published in the UK, Canada, and the US. 🏳️‍🌈 📚 :transgender: 🦋

Every recommendation helps get this extraordinary history into more hands, so please ask your favourite libraries and bookstores to stock it. Thank you! 🙏

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"A 200-year-old illustrated condom will go on display with Dutch golden age masters in Amsterdam this week, after the 19th-century “luxury souvenir” became the first-ever contraceptive sheath to be added to the Rijksmuseum’s art collection."
#histsci #histmed #histsex (#histnat?) #collections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/rijksmuseum-condom-exhibition

I never thought I'd see the day.

Charles Darwin is currently trending above two porn-related articles, Luke Evans, and Kit Connor in Attitude Magazine! 🙃

The power of #histsci . . .

Thank you, one and all — please keep sharing. Here's the article: https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/literature/darwins-queer-creatures-532721/

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I'm overjoyed to be the featured author in the latest issue of IFLScience's Curious Magazine!

Read a 'book bite' from QUEER ORIGINS and discover what inspired me to write it. 🐟️ 🌈 🦋 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐦️

As ever, the whole issue is fabulous . . .

https://www.iflscience.com/why-is-it-so-funny-watching-people-fall-over-find-out-more-in-issue-50-of-curious-out-now-84471

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Queer history of science in Attitude Magazine — oh yes!

Read about some of the queer creatures that fascinated Charles Darwin, including the first fish discovered to be dual-sexed, butterfly species with multiple female forms, and good emu dads. 🐟 🌈 🦋 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐦

https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/literature/darwins-queer-creatures-532721/

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Friends and neighbours on the Sussex Coast (UK), I've signed some copies of QUEER ORIGINS for you at three Waterstones stores: Brighton, Eastbourne, and Worthing.

And, yes, there are a few of those coveted bookmarks too . . . if you get in quick! 🌈 📚 🌞 🌊 🍦

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Last call for this fantastic offer as the month draws to a close . . .

Discount code HSS26 (from the recent history of science conference in Edinburgh) gets you a cracking 30% off QUEER ORIGINS from my publisher's website until the end of August: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/.

Several bookshops are discounting the book, but I think this remains the cheapest price (£17.50 with free UK postage). 🏳️‍🌈 📚️️ 🦋

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The Latin writings of an LGBT pioneer, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs #histsex

Feminism and the Struggle for a ‘New Sexual Morality’ at the Dawn of the Spanish Second Republic https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0424.70064 #histsex #hildegart

It's just magical seeing QUEER ORIGINS in bookshops, especially the iconic Gay's the Word.✨

I've signed some copies there — nab one while you can (there are also some soon-to-be-collector's-item bookmarks)! 🏳️‍🌈 📚 :transgender: 🦋

https://www.gaystheword.co.uk/

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DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE is published in the UK today! 🥳🎈🍾

To mark the occasion, I've written a blog on my publisher's website about the natural wonder of sexual polymorphism—and why Richard Dawkins' view of Darwin needs some clarification. 🌈📚 :transgender: 🦋

Read it here: https://yalebooks.co.uk/blog/darwins-queer-inheritance/

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Pioneers of Sexology, Gynecology, and Psychology in the Construction of Feminism during Spain’s Silver Age: Hildegart Rodríguez, Concepción Aleixandre, and Mercedes Rodrigo https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7173539 #histsex

I've written about Charles Darwin's surprisingly queer science of sex in the latest issue of History Today! 🏳️‍🌈🦚 :transgender: 🦋

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/charles-darwins-sexual-revolution

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Albert Moll. Mind, Sex, Ethics (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2026) https://www.mqup.ca/Books/A/Albert-Moll #histsex

Epistémologie des histoires minoritaires : L’Institut berlinois de science sexuelle (1919-1933) au sein des histoires trans https://thesis.dial.uclouvain.be/entities/masterthesis/8ba5d27c-90ee-4018-98cf-88498d777433 #histsex

Read an excerpt from my forthcoming book, DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE . . . 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

Just posted on Yale University Press's website: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2026/06/10/an-excerpt-darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/

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Happy #PrideMonth! 🌈

Here's a lovely western capercaillie described by Swedish zoologist Sven Nilsson in 1832 as a female that had developed male-typical plumage. 🐦 :transgender:

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Whoop, whoop! 🥳

My book has just been sent to the printers! It also features in Yale University Press's Autumn Catalogue, in some very illustrious company . . . #excited

All shares and preorders much appreciated! 🙏

UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ :transgender: 📜 🦋

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The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity 1869-1939 (The Monacelli Press, 2025) https://www.phaidon.com/en-eu/products/the-first-homosexuals-the-birth-of-a-new-identity-1869-1939 #histsex

Fridays with Nancy: Processing the Nancy Friday Papers https://barnardarchives.wordpress.com/2023/11/30/fridays-with-nancy-processing-the-nancy-friday-papers/ #histsex

I'm bowled over by the first endorsements my forthcoming book has received. Such brilliant authors - WOW!

You will love it too . . .

UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ :transgender: 📚 🦋

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Michael Lombardi-Nash continúa su encomiable traducción al inglés de la obra de Hirschfeld. Le toca por fin turno a la esencial Geschlechtskunde (1926-1930) #histsex
https://www.amazon.es/Sexology-Part-1-Magnus-Hirschfeld/dp/B0GTPK411T

It's #Easter Sunday! 🌱

No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. But I do have a *lot* of queer chickens. 🥚🏳️‍🌈🐤 :transgender: 🐔

Here's a domestic hen with male plumage, described in the Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society in 1821.

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“The Way They Speak of Masters and Johnson”: The Rise and Disappearance of Sex Therapy, 1960–2000 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhbs.70049 #histsex

Happy #InternationalWomensDay! 👩‍🔬💜

Working on my forthcoming book, finding out about English suffragist and naturalist Lydia Ernestine Becker was a revelation. In 1869, she made an inclusive, science-based case for women's rights. Just awesome! 🤩

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Happy #ValentinesDay! 🐌❤️🐌

Delightful, if fanciful, depiction of garden snails exchanging love darts. By English artist Frederick Polydore Nodder and published in the Naturalist’s Miscellany in 1790. [The darts don’t propel through the air as the image depicts but are fired on contact.]

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Btw, my gorgeous cover star is a gynandromorph gypsy moth, female on its left side, male on the right. It was caught in Berlin in July 1864 and pictured by German entomologist Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg in 1877. It makes more than one appearance in my book!

UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️‍🌈 📚️ 🐵

US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ :transgender: 📜 🦋

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My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August in the UK and 8 September in the US.

Please help spread the word! 🙏

UK: https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ 🏳️‍🌈 📚 🐵

US: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/ :transgender: 📜 🦋

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Happy New Year! 🍾

Lots of promising queer history books to look forward to in 2026. Here are just a few coming soon . . . 🌈📚

https://www.beacon.org/A-Black-Queer-History-of-the-United-States-P2242.aspx

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-inheritance-9781781301142/

https://www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-culture

https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/

https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487554347

https://oneworld-publications.com/work/how-queer-bookshops-changed-the-world/

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“What does the princess want?” Misogyny, Marie Bonaparte’s “carnal community,” and the pursuit of a scientific understanding of female pleasure https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-23060-001 #histsex

My 2023 Notes and Records article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' is free to read this #OpenAccess week! 🌈🧬

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036

Download and share while you can . . .

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I'm thoroughly enjoying 50 LGBTQ+ Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme by Ben Paites, especially the botanical and zoological content. 🦒🌸🦆

Makes for a great present . . . 🎅(sorry!)

https://www.amberley-books.com/50-lgbtq-finds.html

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WOW! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871),' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 50K times!

I'm working hard on the book. For more about that, watch this space! 🏳️‍🌈🐒

https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648

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It's #WorldBeeDay! 🐝💛🍯🖤

This gorgeous gynandromorph potter flower bee is described in a 1845 article in The Zoologist by English entomologist Frederick Smith. It's pictured from above (left) and below (right).

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Happy Easter to all who celebrate! 🌱

No cute lambs or bunnies in my files, I'm afraid. I do, however, have a *lot* of queer chickens. This is Hector, a 'hen-cock' pictured in the Sporting Magazine in March 1833 and mentioned by Charles Darwin in his 1868 book The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication!

🥚🐥🐔

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