I always tailor talks to fit the needs of my audiences (prior hosts tell me I’m good at that), but lately I’ve been speaking mostly on:

1. ❖What happens now to children born with socially challenging bodies (intersex, conjoinment, dwarfism, cleft lip, etc.), and what should happen to them
   

2. ❖What is medicine for? (a critique of the use of medicine to support social norms and a critique of the commercialization of healthcare)
   

3. ❖“Onion peeling,” i.e., doing private, pro-bono, client-centered medical histories (and the costs, benefits, and risks thereof)
   

4. ❖Intersex and disorders of sex development (history, treatment, politics)
   

5. ❖When identity politics and sex researchers clash (special focus on the Bailey book controversy)
   

6. ❖Representations of people with unusual bodies in the medical literature, in the media, and in self-styled exhibitions
   

7. ❖The activist-academic: oxymoron, or moral imperative?
   

8. ❖Anatomy and identity in a liberal democracy: what are and what ought to be the roles of science and medicine?
   

Relevant links:

1. ‣Arranging a speaking engagement
   

2. ‣My speaking schedule
   

3. ‣Where I’ve spoken
   

4. ‣Sample itineraries