I’ve been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship! Now that really puts the spring in one’s step, I’ve got to say. The full-page announcement in the New York Times was pretty exciting; although I had gotten word it was coming, it still made it feel really real. (I picked up a copy at the Detroit airport, on my way to Ithaca College where I was this year’s C.P. Snow Distinguished Lecturer.) I thought that would mark my 10th appearance in the New York Times, but I searched their site and realized it’s actually my 12th.

Speaking of my work with the media, I just found out the Oprah show I was on last September will re-air on July 25. That picture there is of me on Oprah. No, I don’t usually look that...polished. Nor do I have blond hair and blue eyes; don’t ask me how that happened. But I will say it was a fine show and good things continue to trickle down from it for people with sex anomalies and their families.

In terms of pubs....My book-length scholarly history of the Bailey book controversy (about transsexualism) just appeared as a “target article” in Archives of Sexual Behavior. It was published along with 23 commentaries and my response to those commentaries. I’ve been getting lots of fan mail on the original article and my response. Lots of positive feedback also on the new special section that I co-edited recently with Paul Vasey for Perspectives in Biology and Medicine on sex, gender, and sexuality diversity.

Meanwhile, my new piece on sex in medicine (yes, sex in medicine) is out in the new issue of Atrium. Forthcoming in GLQ, I’ve got a new ten-thousand-word article with April Herndon, for a special issue on intersex being edited by the multi-talented Iain Morland. That article (”Progress and Politics in the Intersex Rights Movement: Feminist Theory in Action”) focuses on identity politics and nature/nurture debates in the intersex rights movement. In a forthcoming Cambridge University Press collection on pediatric bioethics, I’ll have one article on the separation of conjoined twins co-authored with Geoffrey Miller, and another article on the treatment of children with disorders of sex development co-authored with David Sandberg. Oh, and I’m delighted that “Lavish Dwarf Entertainment” is now up at Bioethics Forum, where I’m a regular contributor. (For more on my writing, click here.)

In terms of advocacy, I’m working on two new projects that I can’t discuss here. But they’ve got me about as excited as intersex activism, which is saying a lot! And I’m still buzzed about Deb Costandine’s visit to Northwestern.

I gotta go play with my kid. It’s summer! If you’d like to know more, poke around the site!

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