The launch event for Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science was held at Lighthouse, Edinburgh’s radical bookshop, on 14 July 2026. It was hosted by Dr Kevin Guyan, author of Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion.
You can watch the whole event here:
While I was in Edinburgh, I wrote an article for The Scotsman on the extraordinary sexological theories of Robert Knox, the anatomist at the centre of the notorious Burke and Hare ‘bodysnatching’ scandal. Read it here.
Dr Ross Brooks (he/him/they) 