#histsex — Public Fediverse posts

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: 📚 🦋

#books #bookstodon #history #science #biology #nature #animals #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

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.

#HappyEaster #history #histbio #histsci #histstm #sts #science #biology #nature #birds #animals @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histstm @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

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! 🤩

#Victorian #women #iwd #history #science #nature #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM

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.]

#ValentinesDay2026 #snails #animals #nature #naturalhistory #biology #science #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM

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: 📜 🦋

#books #bookstodon #history #science #nature #animals #histsci @[email protected] @[email protected] @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbtq #queerhistory #LGBTplusHM #PrideInSTEM

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: 📜 🦋

#books #bookstodon #coverreveal #history #science #biology #nature #animals #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @[email protected] @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #LGBTplusHM #PrideInSTEM

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 . . .

#OAweek #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #HistBio #STS #SciComm @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #QueerInSTEM #lgbtq #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

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

#history #histodons @histodons #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #pride #pridemonth #queerhistory #histsex #sex #nature #naturalhistory #animals #books

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

#history #histodons @histodons #histsci #histbio #HistSTM #HSTM #STS @histstm #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #pride #pridemonth #queerhistory #histsex #sex #biology #nature #naturalhistory #science #animals #Darwin

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).

#HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio #STS @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #animals #bees #science #naturalhistory

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!

🥚🐥🐔

#Easter #HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio #STS @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #animals #birds #science #naturalhistory #art

My 2023 article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain,' published in Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, has now been made free to access! 🌈 🧬 🐦

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

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #HistBio #STS #SciComm @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #QueerInSTEM #lgbtq #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

⚰️ Happy Halloween! 🧛

Same-sex sexual behaviours in bats were first documented in 1895.

Here's a more recent study: http://www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Same-sex-sexual-behaviour-in-bats,77304,0,2.html.

🦇🏳️‍🌈🦇

#Halloween #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #HistBio #STS #SciComm @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #QueerInSTEM #lgbtq #science #biology #zoology #animals #bats

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! 🌈🧬

Download away and share while you can . . .

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

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci #HistBio #STS #SciComm @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #QueerInSTEM #lgbtq #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

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 45K times! 😲

Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🦋 🏳️‍🌈 🐒 :transgender: 🐟

#history #histodons @histodons #histsci #histbio #HistSTM #HSTM #STS @histstm #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #histsex #sex #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #Darwin

Wishing everyone a nice, relaxing weekend!✨

I've been writing about frog sex this week, so here's a lovely plate from German painter and naturalist August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof's sumptuous Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium ('The Natural History of Our Frogs,' 1758). 🐸 🐸

#histSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #frogs

My 2022 article 'Bounds of Diversity: Queer Zoology in Europe from Aristotle to John Hunter,' published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, has now been viewed over 25K times!

🦞🏳️‍🌈🦌 :transgender: 🦚

It's free to read #OpenAccess - please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/195/1/1/6568055

#PrideInSTEM #histSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals

Whoop, whoop! My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)' has now been viewed over 40K times! 😲

Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🐟🏳️‍🌈🐒🏳️‍⚧️🐞

#history #histodons @histodons #histsci #histbio #HistSTM #HSTM #STS @histstm #QueerInSTEM #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #Pride #PrideMonth #LGBTplusHM #histsex #sex #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #Darwin

I mustn't let May go by without a nod to my 2009 article on the discovery, during the 19th century, of same-sex copulation among Maybugs (also known as Maybeetles, cockchafers, doodlebugs). Do look out for them at it in your garden! 🌈🌳

https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/E0260954108000703

#history #histodons @histodons #HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio @histstm #sex #histsex #science #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #animals #beetles #maybugs #queer #lgbtq #pride #QueerInSTEM

#HappyEaster! 🌱☀️

No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. I do, however, have a *lot* of queer chickens. This is a painting of a hen-cock (c. 1900), a prize fighter, by English artist Herbert Atkinson. 🥚🐥🐔

#Easter #HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio #STS @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #animals #biology #science #naturalhistory #chickens #art

I hope everyone has a relaxing weekend!✨

Lovely colour plate depicting gynandromorph specimens in the collections of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Produced by German entomologist Friedrich Klug in 1829. 🦋 🐞

#HistSTM #HSTM #histsci #histbio @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #animals #biology #science #naturalhistory #gynandromorph

Just a reminder that, following the Royal Society event in Jan, my article 'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' has been made freely available until the end of Feb/LGBTQ+ History Month.

Download away while you can! 🧬🏳️‍🌈🐦

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

#LGBTplusHM #HistSTM #HSTM #STS #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #lgbtqia #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #genetics #eugenics

'all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it'
- Charles Darwin to William Darwin Fox, 7 May 1855

Poor ol' Chas.

It's Darwin Day! 🌱🌈🐵

My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)' has been viewed over 33K times! Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648

#Darwin #DarwinDay #HistSTM #HSTM #STS #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #lgbtqia #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #genetics

Today I'm writing about how sex selection emerged as one of the leading promises of 20th-c. biologists/eugenicists as they got to grips with sexological genetics. 😬

Ad for The Science of Life (by Julian Huxley, G. P. Wells, & H. G. Wells) in Popular Science Monthly (March 1931).

#HistSTM #HSTM #histsci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #1930s #sex #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

Gynandromorph bordered white moth from Charles Barrett's Lepidoptera of the British Isles (1901). 🦋

At 11am (GMT) next Wednesday (31 Jan) I will be discussing my article 'Mendel's Closet' as part of the Royal Society history of science seminar series. 🏳️‍🌈 🧬

Details: https://cassyni.com/events/K7KB3CY521F84kjXqn3mws/

The article is currently free to read: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

📢 At 11am (GMT) on Wednesday 31 January I will be discussing (online) my latest article, 'Mendel's Closet,' as part of the Royal Society history of science seminar series. 🧬🏳️‍🌈🐦

Details here: https://cassyni.com/events/K7KB3CY521F84kjXqn3mws/

Ahead of the event, the article has been made free to access from the Notes and Records website. 🥳 Download away!

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

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet' in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has been viewed over 30K times! Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🏳️‍🌈 🐒

There's now a prequel, 'Bounds of Diversity': https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/195/1/1/6568055 :transgender: 🦞

. . . and a sequel! 'Mendel's Closet': https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036 🐦 🧬

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #Darwin #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #science #animals #genetics

📰 25% off subscriptions to the British Newspaper Archive until 27 November: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/account/subscribe?PromotionCode=SAVE25

This is the only Black Friday deal I look forward to each year. Simply the best stay-at-home research resource. I've found many sexological gems over the years . . .

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #britishhistory #histodons @histodons #archives #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #science #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #animals

In June 2019 I acted as contributing editor to a queer-themed edition of Viewpoint: The Magazine of the British Society for the History of Science. I thought I would share it here today as it's #lgbtqstemday!

https://www.bshs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Viewpoint_119_web_v3.pdf

🔬 🏳️‍🌈 🐦 :transgender: 🪐

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #science

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Gynandromorph Gouldian finch possessing female plumage on the left side and male on the right. Described and pictured in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1939. 🏳️‍🌈 🐦 :transgender:

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #science #biology #zoology #naturalhistory #animals #birds

'Every man & woman is hermaphrodite' (Charles Darwin, c.1838)

My 2021 article 'Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)' in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has now been viewed over 25K times! Please keep sharing: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 🏳️‍🌈 🐒

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #Darwin #biology #zoology #science

My new article, along with all Royal Society journal content, will be freely available #OpenAccess for 3 more days! Download away while you can . . .

'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain.' 🌈 🧬

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

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

📢 My latest article has been published online ahead of print publication in Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science.

'Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain' 🌈 🧬

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

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #biology #science #genetics #eugenics

Another gorgeous image, this one dated 1758, of a doe bearing antlers. :transgender: 🦌 🏳️‍🌈

It's by German painter and engraver Johann Elias Ridinger.

For more 18th-century queer zoology, see https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/195/1/1/6568055.

#HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #biology #zoology #science

LGBTQ Primary Sources for the classroom: https://chssp.ucdavis.edu/lgbtq-primary-sources #HistGender #HistSex #TeachingHistory #Histodons

(via https://www.threads.net/@professorrouse/post/CvuwgnkL23b/)

Die 15-jährige Arbeiterin Rosa wird in der Wohnung ihrer Eltern in #Leipzig von der Gestapo festgenommen.

👉 https://hsl.hypotheses.org/2164

Isabella Beck arbeitet im Blog ➡ History | Sexuality | Law geschlechterspezifische Vorannahmen der NS-Verfolger heraus.

#LeipzigerMeuten #NSZeit #HistSex #Jugenddelinquenz #HistGender #Geschlechtergeschichte

Today I'm writing about the first descriptions of toad sex.

Chinese herpetologist Ch’eng-chao Liu, writing in the Peking Natural History Bulletin in 1932, was certainly thorough . . .

#zoology #herpetology #toads #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #history #histodons @histodons #sex #queer #queerhistory #lgbtq #Pride #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2023

I held off my #introduction, unsure which instance to choose, but best seems to just get started:

I am a researcher of #gender #sexuality #sexualviolence in #conflict #war & #genocide - espec in #WWII Europe & Asia.
I came to this subject as student/activist in 1990s, listening to #ComfortWomen #survivors in Korea.
I am a co-founder of the "International Research Group 'Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict'".
#histodons #histsex @histodons #Holocaust #queer #feminism #crsv #metoo #NewHere #NeuHier

Wonderful to be back in #Oxford today! As ever, lots of great finds in the Bod including this lovely colour plate of a #gynandromorph Gouldian finch described by biologists F. A. E. Crew and S. S. Munro in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in June 1938.

#history #histodons @histodons #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci @histstm #histsex #queer #QueerHistory #lgbtq #birds #ornithology #zoology

From today's #foodandsex research: Paul Cadmus's "Greenwich Village Cafeteria" from 1934. Check out the guy disappearing into the bathroom with the come hither glance over his shoulder. And the guy trying to pick another guy up behind the woman in orange. Curious how the blonde woman's purse end up spilled on the floor. I notice there's no food being served. #histsex #arthistory #PaulCadmus

hello y'all! I'm joining from twitter. I'm still getting set up and following people, but by way of #introduction I'm bri, a phd at UBC's iSchool. I research information’s histories and the practice of equitable cataloging in cultural heritage institutions (#critcat in #GLAM or #GLAMS).

I also do #LODLAM with Homosaurus, publish on #HistBook / #histsex (buy my book), and other things like the NCPWG, TMDC, and QMDC. (see below for links!)

Morning reading: a new popular history of the feminist bohemian free speech club Heterodoxy, which started in Greenwich Village in 1913. A number of the members were lesbians or bi, but I’m not clear whether same-sex sexuality was open for discussion in the group. They didn’t take minutes, to protect the freedom of discussion. I’m torn over whether I think it possible/likely that they did or didn’t talk about sex/love between women. #histsex #queerhist #LGBTQ #womenshistory #queertodon