. Oxford's LGBTQ+ history (https://queeroxford.info/) 🏛️. Currently working on my first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life (Yale University Press) 📚. Now living on England's South Coast (close to Brighton) ⛵. Trekkie 🖖. Classical music 🎵. Mainly on Bluesky (@rossbrooks.co.uk). Agent: https://www.philippasitters.co.uk/.| Pronouns | he/him |
| Darwin's Closet: The Queer Sides of the Descent of Man (1871) | https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 |
| Bounds of Diversity: Queer Zoology in Europe from Aristotle to John Hunter | https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/195/1/1/6568055 |
| Mendel's Closet: Genetics, Eugenics and the Exceptions of Sex in Edwardian Britain | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036 |
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] @histodons @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM #WomenInSTEM
It's World Book Day (UK & Ireland)! 🌍📚🤩
For young people brandishing book tokens today, there are some marvellous queer-themed science and nature books out there . . . 🏳️🌈 🦆 🦋
#WorldBookDay #WorldBookDay2026 #LoveLibraries #QueerInSTEM #lgbt #lgbtqia #queer #nature #science #books
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] @histodons @histodon @histsci #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #PrideInSTEM
'all nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it'
- Charles Darwin, 7 May 1855
Poor ol' Chas.
It's #DarwinDay! 🦋🐵🐟
Here's an unsung hero in Darwin's queer menagerie, Serranus cabrilla. It proved that vertebrate species could be hermaphrodite. That made Chas happy!
This lovely fish will have a starring role in my book . . . 🏳️🌈 📚
https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300287202/darwin-and-the-queer-origins-of-life/
#fish #animals #nature #science #books #history #histsci #histstm @histodons @histsci #queer #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/ 📜 🦋
#books #bookstodon #history #science #nature #animals #histsci @[email protected] @histodons @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/ 📜 🦋
#books #bookstodon #coverreveal #history #science #biology #nature #animals #Darwin #histsci #histstm @[email protected] @histodons @histodon @histsci @histstm #histsex #sex #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #LGBTplusHM #PrideInSTEM
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/
#history #histodons @[email protected] @histodons #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #pride #queerhistory #histsex #sex #books #2026
Immensely proud to share that I am the designer of the official badge for LGBT+ History Month 2026.
The 2026 theme for the month will be 'Science and Innovation', so get ready to learn about some amazing queer scientists next year!
Selling these badges each year is one of the main ways that Schools OUT (the charity who founded LGBT+ History Month) are able to fundraise, so please do check them out if you like my design!
https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/product/science-and-innovation-2026-pin-badge
So excited that the theme of LGBT+ History Month UK 2026 is 'Science and Innovation,' with super badge designed by @canopyrobin! 🧬 🔭 🏳️🌈 🚆
Wonderful launch event at the Royal Society of Chemistry this evening. 👏
https://lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk/lgbt-history-month-2026/
#LGBTplusHM #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #queerhistory #science #PrideInSTEM @histodons @histstm @histsci
If you’d like to donate to support our work, click here to donate via PayPal. Free Schools Presentation For 2026 we are able to offer free LGBT+ History Month presentations for secondary schools, pride clubs and youth groups. If you are interested in booking one of these for your schools we suggest that you book… Read More »LGBT+ History Month 2026
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
Robin Hayward