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The PDF linked below is an image produced for a book I edited, on disorders of sex development. (My very talented artist-brother did it for me. He’s so talented he can even make boring line drawings on request.) This image shows how all fetuses start off with the same basic parts (shown at the top). Then males typically…

This is an image produced for a book I edited, on children born with sex development different from the typical male or female. (My talented artist-brother did it for me. He’s so talented he can even make boring line drawings on request.) This image shows some of the kinds of variations you can find in genital development, from…

Don’t worry – you can’t fail this one. This is the “quiz” I give to friends who have asked me to redesign their academic offices. I use their answers to give them offices that work for them both professionally and sensually. (Yes, it is okay to have an office that makes your senses feel good.…

Treacle was our first rat, and I still miss him sometimes. He was sweet (especially after castration), warm, and not particularly ambitious, unless you count what he would do for avacado and chocolate. Here he is as a pup playing with my necklace, as a mature rat eating an ice cream cone I scaled down…

One Foot In is my long-time homepage blog, and is generally written from my perspective as someone who gave up a tenured full-time position to live with only one foot (part-time) in academia. Pacific Standard has been kind enough to purchase republication rights to some of these posts. Posts are shown below in reverse chronological order. Leaning Out Try Everything:…

I used to write regularly for the Hastings Center’s online commentary site. (I decided to stop a few months after I found myself subject to a dex-specific gag order–something I found extremely troubling.) Posts are shown newest first: Australia’s Passport to Gender Confusion. Why a new system that seeks to be gender progressive is actually kinda…

Alice Dreger, editor, Bad Girls, issue 12 of Atrium. Alice Domurat Dreger and Paul Vasey, editors, Special section on Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Diversity for Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (Autumn 2007, vol. 50, no. 4). Alice Domurat Dreger, editor, Commentary on The ‘Visible Skeleton’ Series for Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (Spring 2004, vol. 47, no. 2). Alice Domurat Dreger, editor of and author…

My long-time homepage blog’s name, “One Foot In” refers to what I sometimes tell people about my current professional life: I’ve got one foot in the Ivory Tower and one on the ground. (It’s a kind of stretching that keeps one’s metaphorical thighs nicely toned.) As someone whose work centers on social justice issues in medicine and…

I am thrilled to have been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2008-2009. According to the Guggenheim Foundation’s website, “Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment.” I’m so honored to be among such a prestigious group of scholars and artists. For the fellowship application, I proposed a book…

On August 22, 2007, San Francisco’s public radio station KQED was kind enough to dedicate a full hour of their Forum talk show to my article on the Bailey book controversy. (You can listen to an archive of the program or look at a transcript.) The following is a summary of the many inaccuracies in Stanford University Professor Joan…