This article by animal studies graduate student Eliot Schrefer for The Washington Post highlights a recent surge in scholarship on same-sex animal behavior which challenges longstanding misconceptions about the connection between animal sexuality and evolution.
Queering High School Biology Textbooks
This article by Vicky L. Snyder and Francis S. Broadway uses queer theory to question assumptions embedded in high school biology textbooks. The authors identify "deafening silences" on some topics and "socially sanitized concepts". The authors suggest ways to science educators to broaden their perspectives.
Article uploaded with permission from Francis S. Broadway.
Evolution's Rainbow: A queer species database of 200+ organisms
Need a research Topic for queerness in living organisms?
Check out the 🔎SPECIES DATABASE from Stanford biologist Joan Roughgarden’s book, EVOLUTION’S RAINBOW (University of California Press). Click the link above, or check out the embedded document below for 200+ species from the asexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, intersex, and hermaphrodite spectra. Includes behavior, neurobiology, and chromosomal phenomena.
Editor’s note: The term "hermaphrodite" is appropriate for referring to non-human animals with sex characteristics that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies. For humans, “intersex” is the appropriate term—learn more here!