As part of my public education and advocacy work, I do a lot of media outreach. (That right there is a picture of me on Oprah Winfrey’s show.) Here are some of the interviews I’ve done and some of the press reports that talk about my work. They’re organized by type and then date:

Broadcast interviews:

The Oprah Winfrey Show, Growing Up Intersex, and a Discussion of the Book Middlesex, September 21, 2007.

KQED (National Public Radio affiliate), Forum talk show, discussion of my article on the Bailey Book controversy, August 22, 2007. (For a transcript, click here, and for a summary of critical misrepresentations by one of the other guests, click here.)

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, “The Current,” special on conjoined twins, October 26, 2006.

ABC News 20/20 special on conjoined twins, September 8, 2006.

National Public Radio, All Things Considered, The Legacy of Sex Researcher John Money, July 11, 2006.

HBO, Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She, on intersex and transgender, first aired December 6, 2005.

To the Best of Our Knowledge, interview with host Jim Fleming for their program on Doubles and Dopplegangers (my segment starts about 25 minutes in); aired October 2, 2005.

“The Current,” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (radio), program on intersex, July 28, 2004.

“Stateside” with Charity Nebbe, WUOM radio, May 3, 2004.

BBC Horizon, “Conjoined Twins,” aired October 19, 2000.

National Broadcast News, Canada, aired September 13, 2000.

City TV Toronto, “Intersexuality: Redefining Sex,” first broadcast April, 2000.

A&E Biography, “Face to Face: The Schappell Sisters,” first aired January 23, 2000 (continues to air)

Australian Broadcasting Corporation (radio), interview with Philip Adams, broadcast October 6, 1999.

Gender Talk Radio, WMBR, 88.1 FM in Boston, broadcast September 6, 1999.

National Public Radio, “The Todd Mundt Show,” broadcast March 16, 1999.

“20/20” (ABC News) history of the medical treatment of conjoined twins, aired June 25 and July 10, 1999.

ABC News/Prime Time Live, on the history of conjoined twins, broadcast March 10, 1998.

FOX News Chicago, television news program, broadcast Feb 9 1998.

Todd Mundt on “Morning Edition” (Michigan Public Radio), broadcast February 10, 1998.

Press reports on my research:

Anonymous, Paper Finds Controversial Northwestern Researcher Acted Appropriately, The Advocate, October 23, 2007.

Michael Gsovski and Sarah Sumadi, Reporting Clearing Prof Leaves Critics Unsatisfied, The Daily Northwestern, October 19, 2007. See also a related editorial.

Margaret Wente, The Explosive Thinking of Sex Reassignment, Globe and Mail, August 24, 2007. (See my letter to the editor in response.)

Benedict Carey, Criticism of a Gender Theory, and a Scientist Under Siege, New York Times, August 21, 2007 (front page of the Science Times).

Benedict Carey, For Sex Researcher, a Never-Ending Backlash, International Herald Tribune, August 21, 2007.

Jane Armstrong, A Dividing Issue: Can the Girls Be Separated?, Globe and Mail (Canada), April 27, 2007.

Harlan Spector and Regina McEnery, Two Lives, Entwined, Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 25, 2007 (cover story).

Dennis Rodkin, What Sex Am I?, Chicago Reader, February 2, 2007.

Dan Savage, Smallsville, in the advice column Savage Love, The Stranger (column also internationally syndicated), November 9, 2006.

Faye Flam, Can Men Marry If They Have Ovaries?, The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 9, 2006.

Elizabeth Weil, What If It’s (Sort of) a Boy and (Sort of) a Girl?, New York Times, September 24, 2006.

Dan Savage, Clit Notes, in the advice column Savage Love, The Stranger (column also internationally syndicated), June 1, 2006.

Associated Press, Separation Surgery Has Risks, Success Stories, March 27, 2006.

Chloe Fedio, Intersex—Exploring Sexual Ambiguities in the Human Population, The Gateway, February 14, 2006.

Laurie Abraham, Separation Anxiety, New York Magazine, August 22, 2005.

Ann M. Bauer, The Second Question, Minnesota Monthly, June 2005.

Patricia Anstett, A Different Kind of Normal: MSU Professor Leads a Change for Children with Physical Abnormalities, Detroit Free Press, July 19, 2004.

Interview with Dawn Wolfe, LBGT - and -, originally published Nov. 4, 2004, in Between the Lines.

Patricia Anstett, “Separation Anxiety? Medical Ethicist Says most Conjoined Twins Prefer to Remain Together,” The Grand Rapids Press, July 19, 2004, p. A3.

Stephen Hui, Seven Questions for Alice Dreger, Seven Oaks Magazine (“A Magazine of Politics, Culture, & Resistance”), Vancouver, June 7, 2004.

Joshua Glenn, “Joined at Birth,” Boston Globe, January 4, 2004, p. C2.

Jen Skerritt, “Reimer’s Death Revives Debate,” Swerve, Winnipeg, June, 2004, p. 3.

Janet Kornblum, “Twins Emerge from Shadows and Shame,” USA Today, October 21, 2003, p. 8D.

Laura Beil, “Twin Destinies,” Dallas Morning News, Aug. 24, 2003, pp. 1w-12w.

“Recent Cases Renew Attention toward Conjoined Twins,” U-Wire, July 28, 2003.

“A Risk Willingly Taken: Science will Learn from Death of Conjoined Twins,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 21, 2003, p. A12.

Volker Stollorz, “Der Wunsch der Schwestern? Nach der Operation: Fragen en die Wissenschaftshistoriker in Alice Dreger,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, July 13, 2003, p. 54.

Judy Hill, “Is Solitude worth Risking Your Life?,” Tampa Tribune, July 13, 2003, p.

Janet Kornblum, “Twins’ Deaths Underscore Extreme Risk: Sisters Sought Individuality at All Costs,” USA Today, July 9, 2003, p. D5.

Anonymous, “Tragic Deaths Highlight Perils of Separation Surgery,” Agence France Presse, July 8, 2003.

Sharon Doyle Driedger, “Gender Paradoxes: People with Intersex Conditions Want the Shame and Stigma to End,” Maclean’s, May 26, 2003, pp. 33ff.

Jen Phillips, “Born between the Sexes,” Girlfriends’ Magazine, May, 2003.

Jennifer Graham, “Experts Gather at Stanford to Discuss Sex, Gender,” U-Wire, February 11, 2002.

Charles I. Lugosi, “Playing God: Mary Must Die So Jody May Live Longer,” Issues in Law & Medicine, September 22, 2001, p. 123.

Anonymous, “Difficult Subject Treated Carefully,” Western Morning News, October 20, 2000.

Debora Mackenzie, “Must One Twin Die? (Ethical Concerns over Operation to Separate Siamese Twins),” New Scientist, October 7, 2000.

Steven Morris, “Jodie and Mary: The Point Where the Law, Ethics, Religion, and Humanity are Baffled,” The Guardian (London), September 9, 2000, p. 12.

Suzanne Miller, “When Sexual Development Goes Awry,” World & I, September 1, 2000, p. 148.

Ricki Lewis, “Reevaluating Sex Assignment,” The Scientist, vol. 14, no. 14, July 10, 2000, pp. 6, 13.

Anne Fausto-Sterling, “The Five Sexes, Revisited,” The Sciences, July 1, 2000, pp. 18-23.

Louise Kiernan, “In Intersex Cases, Gender Is a Complex Question,” Chicago Tribune, June 20, 1999, pp. 1, 9.

Emily Nussbaum, “The Sex That Dare Not Speak Its Name,” Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life, May/June, 1999, pp. 42-51.

Nancy Murrell, “Intersex Group Raises Questions about Genital Surgery,” The Miami Herald, October 28, 1998.

Natalie Angier, “A Gallery of Human Oddities Who Are, After All, Human,” (review of the four-part PBS series, “Oliver Sacks: The Mind Traveler”), The New York Times, August 23, 1998, sec. 2, p. 29.

Douglas E. Beeman, “Conjoined Twins Dilemma,” The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA), February 28, 1998, p. B-01.

Natalie Angier, “Rethink Separating Twins, Doctors Urged. The Assumption that Life as Conjoined Siblings Is Not Worth Living Is an Outsider’s View, a Historian Says,” The Globe and Mail (U.K.), December 30, 1997, p. A10.

Natalie Angier, “Conjoined Twins Happy to Shatter an Old Stereotype,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 26, 1997, p. A22.

Natalie Angier, “Historian Debunks Prevailing View about Separating Conjoined Twins,” Houston Chronicle, December 23, 1997, p. 6.

Natalie Angier, “Joined for Life, and Living Life to the Full,” New York Times, December 23, 1997, pp. B11, B15 (Science Times section).

Live interviews:

Forum, KQED (San Francisco), August 22, 2007

Canadian Broadcasting Corp., “The Current,” October 26, 2006

The Donovan Report, KDXU News Radio (Utah), October 1, 2004

Gender Talk Radio (based in Boston at WMBR), September 27, 2004

KDVS Davis (California), September 1, 2004

New Zealand Radio, August 18, 2004

Canadian Broadcasting Corp., “The Current,” July 28, 2004

BBC Midlands (radio), July 7, 2003

BBC Live-5 (radio), July 8, 2003

CNN International (TV), July 9, 2003

Good Morning America (ABC), September, 2002

Health Shots, WHUS, 91.7 FM, April, 1998.