Here’s a running list of what’s new in my work, on this site and elsewhere:

• American Press Institute picks up my work noting the problems with the Medill Local News Initiative map
• My weekly column for Heterodox Academy
• I’ve taken on the position of Managing Editor for the Heterodox Academy
• My reporting on the Medill local news map garners the top slot at Editor & Publisher
• I’m honored to be name one of FIRE’s “25 Faces of Free Speech”
• Slated to deliver keynote for the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport, Nova Scotia, August 2024
• Op-ed for the Boston Globe: “Is it time for hormonal classes, like weight classes, in sports?”
• Spoke at the MIT Free Speech Alliance in a debate on the nature of sex and the place of gender identity in social policy; recording available here.
• Delivered the 2024 Charles Hill Moffat Lecture in History at Marshall University: “Ten Years after Galileo’s Middle Finger, What Have We Learned from a Decade of Campus Conflicts?” Read more.
• Commented for a (surprisingly well done) USA Today report on the marriage of conjoined twin Abby Hensel; read it here.
• Commented for NiemanLab report, “Many small news nonprofits feel overlooked by funders. A new coalition is giving them a voice.” Find it here.
• Also commented for follow-up NiemanLab report, “Patterns in philanthropy leave small newsrooms behind. Can that change?” Find it here.
• Updates on what I’ve been up to (March 3, 2024).
• Local News Blues – check it out
• A follow-up on one Galileo’s Middle Finger character, brought to you by Jesse Singal
• Notes of the Dead: An Essay on Human Pickles (newsletter)
• Alice’s Sauce (a much-demanded recipe)
• How a cancelled panel on sex plays into censorship on the right: A guest post for Retraction Watch
• Sex Develops in Nebraska, a newsletter post
• Plenary session for the American Association for the History of Medicine annual meeting, on “Being a Public Scholar Now: Obligations, Opportunities, and Dangers”
• Guest appearance on the Paradigm podcast
• See my latest reporting for East Lansing Info
• Muttering about the Mütter
• Unusual Bodies: a conversation with Aero
• Birdseed Bread (recipe)
• Pooling, an ode to the freakiest municipal natatorium
• First Draft, a letter about what it’s really like to do serious local news
• The Same Clinics: why it’s important to understand that pediatric gender clinics started with intersex
• “Free Speech and Open Inquiry”: public lecture at the University of Delaware (March 21, 7 p.m.)
• Why do East Lansing officials keep leaving their jobs? WKAR public radio interview
• “Big Lake, Small Pond,” an essay readers have called “lyrical” and “wrenching”
• BBC Radio 4 interview for “The New Gurus,” on the Intellectual Dark Web (excerpted for an NPR interview on the program with Ari Shapiro on All Things Considered)
• We’re Not Actually Dead. (A letter about keeping local news alive.)
• Should I use my second eyeball? Audio essay with my brother, the artist Chris Dreger
• Should I Use My Second Eyeball (at the newsletter)
• Elaine Natoli’s Caponatina, Sicilian-Style
• I’ll be speaking at the Jepson Leadership Forum at the University of Richmond on Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. on the topic of “Free Speech and Open Inquiry in Higher Education”; register here.
• Episode 5 of my podcast is out: “Why Run?” (featuring Peter Sagal, Jocelyn Benson, and Chuck Grigsby)
• Legitimate Eating: a new letter
• “Democracy without the Government: The Importance of Local News to Free Speech,” my contribution to New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech, edited by J.P. Messina
• Episode 4 of my podcast is out: How Could You Love a Rat?” (featuring Dan Savage, Paul Vasey, and my son, Kepler Domurat-Sousa)
• Inevitable Courage: a new letter
• Taking Maddy Out: a new letter
• THE INDEX CASE, the first book in my mystery series, is out
• David Mccullough is dead, and I don’t feel so good myself
• My podcast has launched! Get the backstory at my newsletter and find the first three episodes here.
• On Coping: an essay on my father’s last rites
• On Browsing: a new letter
• Gave another talk at The Garden, this time talking about conjoined twins
• News Purity: thoughts on the question of whether local journalism is intervention
• A Pro-Choicer’s Guide to the Pro-Lifer’s Logic
• Bigger Shoes: a metaphor and an offer of some footwear
• “The Letter They Passed around the Dorm”
• Update on the fetaldex.org website
• Gave a live interactive talk for The Garden on May 17
• “On Anatomical Liberation”: my latest letter (this one, about sex)
• This whole site is new! My thanks to Morgan Lees for the transformation from my former Drupal site to this new WordPress site, and thanks to Cait Palmiter for her design help. Can’t find something you’re looking for? Let me know.
• Masa cornbread recipe (gluten- and dairy-free)
• “And So, It Goes”: I built a local news organization. It kicked ass. And now it has collapsed.
• “Last Days,” a post about my father and why I don’t think I’m going to hell
• Forthcoming paper, “Democracy without the Government: The Importance of Local News to Free Speech,” in New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Free Speech, ed. J.P. Messina (Routledge, 2022). Contact me for more info.
• An objection to the removal of Ed Santurri as Director of St. Olaf College’s Institute for Freedom & Community
• Forthcoming paper, “The Excesses of Our Successes: Challenges to Free Speech and Open Inquiry on American Campuses,” in International Comparative Approaches to Free Speech and Open Inquiry, ed. Luke Sheahan (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). Contact me for more info.
• Launched “Letters from Alice,” more formally known as “In Search of Open Water” (you can subscribe for free)
• Gave the keynote at the 26th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at SUNY Oneonta
• Delivered the Mark Finlay memorial lecture at Georgia Southern University
• My conversation with E.O. Wilson E. O. Wilson (1929-2021) published at Quillette
• Interview on “Permission to Think” with Josh Szeps
• Interview with the Heterodorx pod team
• Interview with the SCI PHI Podcast
• Lacuna names Galileo’s Middle Finger one of the best books to broaden your mind
• Conversation with Kathryn Lynch on the Freedom Project podcast
• I hang out with Two Psychologists + Four Beers
• My appearance on Sean Carroll’s podcast
• Why Use Citizen Journalism for Local News? (new blog post)
• Interview on The Saad Truth podcast
• Hard News, Small Town
• That Weird, Calm Feeling
• View my panel at the Heterodox Academy Open Mind Conference (where I received the Courage Award)
• My op-ed for The Guardian on how elected officials are so annoyingly human…and why we need nonpartisan news outfits like the one I established
• “A Short History of Knowledge, from Feudalism to the Internet” on The Big Think
• “Why I Escaped the Intellectual Dark Web,” commissioned by the Chronicle of Higher Education
• Bioethics in Action, the book I co-edited with Francoise Baylis for Cambridge University Press, is finally out!
• The Heterodox Academy honors me with their inaugural Courage Award, “for consistent courage in pursuing the truth, despite social and professional costs”
• Why I asked not to be in that NY Times article on the “intellectual dark web”
• Track’s Absurd New Rules for Women (New York Times op-ed)
• I am one of the women of the Intellectual Dark Web?
• Last Week at Wellesley
• My interview with the BBC for a special report: “Is the knowledge factory broken?”
• I talk with the Heterodox Academy about how university branding stifles academic freedom
• my (highly acclaimed) keynote for the FIRE faculty conference
• Talks I’ll Be Giving This Year
• Taking Back the Ivory Tower, commissioned by The Chronicle of Higher Ed
• Hiding Locally
• My latest on intersex rights, for Aeon
• On the birth of my grandbook
• At The FIRE: “Northwestern downplays ‘serious violations of academic freedom’ alleged in new report; censored faculty respond”
• The Chronicle of Higher Ed on the ad hoc committee’s report on Northwestern’s censorsing of us
• The Daily Northwestern breaks the news that an ad hoc committee has criticized the administration for censoring us
• Lupron: Deja Vu All Over Again (for Impact Ethics)
• You Might Be in a Medical Experiment and Not Even Know It (for Aeon)
• My interview on science under attack made the Fix It Show’s “Best of 2016” (full interview at https://soundcloud.com/howdowefixit/alicedreger)
• The Talk: Helping Your Kids Navigate Sex in the Real World is now available as an audiobook
• Report on my seminar with the MIT Knight Science Journalism Program
• “Step In, or Look Away?” my essay on watching sexual assault in the making, for The Chronicle of Higher Education
• “Alice Dreger on the I in LGBTI” (about my Intersex Awareness Day talk at CSUN)
• “Visiting Your Leg,” my newest anatomy and identity think-piece, for Aeon Magazine
• The Big Game: The Reality of Living with College Sexual Assault (my latest for Pacific Standard)
• I’m on “Hypenated Lives,” a 2-part Australian Broadcasting radio program on conjoined twins
• my three public lectures as the Stanford Distinguished Professor at University of Miami are now available as podcasts
• Elizabeth Loftus recommends Galileo’s Middle Finger in her acceptance speech for the Isaac Asimov Science Award
• “Alice Dreger on the I in LGBTQI,” from The Sundial
• Without Tenure, Professors Become Terrified Sheep — my debut essay for Aeon
• Chalking Back: about Augustana College’s administration’s decision to create a “free speech zone” the day after I spoke there on academic freedom
• Perspective on “Prenatal Dexamethasone Adversely Affects Cognitive Function in Healthy Girls” in Endocrine Today with Ellen K. Feder
• Reporters Need to Avoid Experts with Vaccine Industry Funding; Here’s Why, and Here’s Help (blog post)
• I speak with the Sacramento News & Reviews on struggle for academic freedom at California’s universities
• I speak with FIRE’s Nico Perrino about free speech on campus on the So To Speak podcast
• Beyond Vaccine Exceptionalism (a new blog post)
• My problem with Twitter. (It isn’t just the trolls.)
• FIveThirtyEight has me on for the inaugural episode of their new science podcast, Sparks!
• The Hormone Games
• Enjoyed my conversation with Pete Dominick on his Sirius Radio show
• Talking with WNYC’s “Only Human” about how our understanding of gender keeps changing
• My new short advice book for parents, THE TALK: HELPING YOUR KIDS NAVIGATE SEX IN THE REAL WORLD is now available in paper
• I’ve updated my page of popular audio and video links
• Video of my keynote for FIRE, which garnered a standing ovation and an “I LOVE YOU!” from a nice young man in the audience.
• My TED talk hits a million! (And on July 4–the perfect date for it.)
• Amy Alkon on Brian Earp on me on Everyday Feminism (If only it were as kinky as it sounds…)
• Brian Earp on the Everyday Feminism withdrawal of my sex ed essay
• my upcoming keynote for the FIRE Student Network Conference in Philadelphia
• I talk with Aaron Carroll at the New York Times about a new Tuskegee study
• Hank Reichman of the AAUP puts the latest censorship of my work in the context of my crazy, crazy last year
• Meghan Murphy of Feminist Current on me being treated like a witch by Everyday Feminism
• Jerry Coyne weighs in on the Everyday Feminism business at his blog, Why Evolution Is True
• a new post on why I was censored by “Everyday Feminism”
• Taking about sex ed and “The Talk” on WKAR radio
• “Coming in from the Cold,” a new blog post
• “How Do You Talk to Your Kids about Sex These Days?”, my latest for The LA Times
• “Subtitles,” a new blog post about genre, gender, and Hope Jahren’s Lab Girl
• Galileo’s MIddle Finger makes the New York Times’ Paperback Row
• Recording of my interview with Illinois Public Media’s “The 21st” on free speech on campus
• I’m on the Savage Lovecast again, this time talking about how parents can talk with tweens who want bikinis and teens who want porn
• Pacific Standard runs an excerpt from my new book, The Talk
• Society for Midland Authors awards Galileo’s Middle Finger its 2016 Prize for Adult Nonfiction!
• My plenary address for the Society for Sex Research and Therapy, audio recording
• THE TALK: HELPING YOUR KIDS NAVIGATE SEX IN THE REAL WORLD – now available
• GALILEO’S MIDDLE FINGER — now available in paperback
• Updated bio and updated cv and updated list of upcoming talks
• Tweeting about The Talk, for Pacific Standard
• Interview with Bloomberg View on intersex and the North Carolina bathroom law
• Interview with The Daily Tarheel on intersex treatment in North Carolina
• I talk about writing with New Hampshire Public Radio’s 10-Minute Writers’ Worksho
• Prof. Bruce Henderson of Ithaca College denounced Lambda Literary Foundation’s treatment of my work and my book
• I respond to Lambda Literary Foundation’s withdrawal of my book from award finalist status
• My chat at Berkeley’s Uncharted Ideas festival is now up at iTunes
• GALILEO’S MIDDLE FINGER is named a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award!
• My appearance on the “How Do We Fix It?” show talking science under attack
• The Heterodox Academy promotes my videochat with Gad Saad
• My appearance on the David Pakman show, talking academic freedom
• The American Philosophical Association names me as a “writing” philosopher of note
• My appearance on the Unorthodox podcast
• My appearance on the Distillations podcast
• HuffPo on Northwestern being ranked in top 10 worst campuses on free speech, related to my resignation
• “Taking a Stand,” in Isthmus
• WISCAPE Q&A on academic freedom
• Me on WORT talking about academic freedom
• My Skype convo with Gad Saad on researchers who get in trouble (like me)
• Another positive review for GALILEO’S MIDDLE FINGER, this time in Science-Based Medicine
• A glowing essay review of GALILEO’S MIDDLE FINGER from New York Magazine
• GALILEO’S MIDDLE FINGER makes Bookish’s “Best Covers of 2015”!
• “Gender Mad”: my take on the closing of a major pediatric gender clinic
• Podcast on the ethics of intersex treatment with the Chemical Heritage Foundation
• Trumping the Academy
• Terrorism: When the Second Amendment Kills the First
• Rewarding Money-In Instead of Knowledge-Out
• Talking to the Wall
• Rejecting the Tranquilizing Drug of Gradualism in Intersex Care (why I’m no longer working with two medical establishment projects)
• Boston Globe on Ben Caron, including my frustration with his conjoined twin work
• The American Philosophical Association names me in a list of influential people who have studied philosophy.
• The Cutting and the Vibrators Continue (Once More post)
• Interview with my home-base society, the History of Science Society
• “Toxic in Smal Doses,” a blog post on longing, jealousy, and toxicology
• Now on video: my ISIR lecture on how researchers doing politically risky work can protect themselves, especially in the media. (This talk is also an attempt to get scientists to understand the reality of science journalists’ work lives.)
• Washington Post editorial on academic freedom calls my resignation “courageous” (whereas I’d describe it as simply necessary)
• update on my speaking schedule
• update of the FAQ on my resignation, now including links to news reports
• a “Storified” version of what I’m going to miss teaching medical students
• Opioids: An “n of 1” Reflection (Once More post)
• Slate names my resignation letter as part of the new genre of “quit lit.” Who knew?
• “Alice Dreger and the Policing of Academic Thought,” at Spiked
• “How to Be An Ally to Cis-Women” (Once More blog post)
• my TED talk has passed 950,000 views
• bio update (pdf form) and c.v. update (pdf including one-page bio cover)
• USA Today: “Northwestern University Professor Resigns in Protest of Academic Censorship”
• Science (AAAS) on Galileo’s Middle Finger and “taking the road less traveled” in science
• FAQ on my resignation from Northwestern University
• The Scientist: “Censored Professor Quits”
• Saint Frances, Walking to Her Car (a blog post, on resignation)
• “Star Scholar Resigns from Northwestern Saying It Doesn’t Respect Academic Freedom” (Chronicle of Higher Education)
• “Noted Author Resigns from Northwestern in Censorship Protest” (HuffPo)
• “Northwestern University Bioethics Professor Resigns over Censorship Claim” (Chicago Tribune)
• “Censored into Resignation?” (Inside Higher Ed)
• Times Higher Education on my resignation
• “Academic Freedom and the Meaning of Courage”; the lead author of the Chicago Statement (University of Chicago law school dean) on my resignation
• Interview with The Rumpus, in which I confess to . . .
• Glowing review of Galileo’s Middle Finger in Human Nature!
• I tell Buzzfeed, on intersex rights, ” At some point, radical actions have to be taken.”
• The Brookyn Mail praises Galileo’s Middle Finger on intersex issues
• Nature covers the Pinker op-ed discussion, including my comments
• BMJ blog calls Galileo’s MIddle Finger “thought provoking, terrifying and inspiring” and tells you to “Go and Read the Book”
• My essay on the Dutee Chand sex/sports ruling, now in the Dallas Morning News
• Pinker Said What Now about Research Ethics? (Once More blog post)
• Interview with Runners’ World on the Dutee Chand decision
• Should Female Athletes Have to Prove They Are Women? (my op-ed for the LA Times on the Dutee Chand ruling)
• Interview with Buzzfeed on the Dutee Chand decision
• My Dream Date with Donald Trump
• Interview with Steven I. Weiss on The Jewish Channel
• John K. Wilson writes in The Academe on censorship of my work
• Podcast interview with David Crowe of The Infectuous Myth
• We’re getting a new sex ed curriculum! Dan Savage has the good news
• Ding-dong, that awful sex ed unit is dead! (news in Vocativ)
• Twitter Is Now My Rolodex, and Other Things I Learned from Hope Amantine (Once More with Feeling)
• The Journal of Nursing on the censorship of my work
• update of my speaking schedule
• Even I Make Mistakes (Once More with Feeling blog on the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival)
• Huffington Post nails it on branding being the central issue in the censorship by Northwestern
• The Chicicago Tribune on Northwestern censoring my and other’s work
• Inside Higher Ed on Northwestern censorsing of the Atrium issue I edited
• Answers to Some Questions about Autogynephilia (Once More with Feeling)
• “Wondering If I’m the Next Tim Hunt” (Once More with Feeling)
• “The Big Problem with Outlawing Gender Conversion Therapies”; my oped for WIRED
• “A Heretic in the Academy”; my article for New Statesman on the problems with pro-vaccine zealots
• GALILEO’S MIDDLE FINGER reviewed in The New Yorker
• My webinar for AAMC on reasons TO add and NOT to add “I” (Intersex) to “LGBT” in medicine
• The Rumpus calls my book “thoroughly engaging and often terrifying”
• River City Reading: “I can’t think of the last time a nonfiction book left me so fascinated, morally conflicted and curious”
• interview with The Verge on sex-testing in sports
• my interview with Science for the People on sex ed
• Snopes has confirmed I exist and I tweet
• my interview about sex ed with Australian Broadcasting Corporation
• my interview about my book and Dr. Oz with WBEZ (Chicago Public Radio)
• interview with Modern Notion podcast on my book
• interview with American Free Thought podcast
• GALILEO’S MIDDLE FINGER named an Editors’ Choice by the New York Times Book Review!
• my essay for The Guardian on the sex ed class
• my interview with Canadian Broadcasting about the sex ed class
• a blog about this crazy week for The Stranger
• a glowing New York Times review of Galileo’s Middle Finger!
• my piece for The Stranger on my son’s sex ed class
• Buzzfeed on the sex ed story
• USA Today on the sex ed story
• The Washington Post on the sex ed story
• chatty update on my work
• photos of my writing cottage
• Malta Bans Surgery on Intersex Children (my take for The Stranger)
• My new book is #1 new release on Amazon for Medical Ethics
• Chicago Tribune reviews Galileo’s Middle Finger
• interview about my book on Virtually Speaking Science (from the Exploratorium)
• BBC Scotland interview on the history of intersex in Scotland
• Amazon names Galileo’s Middle Finger among “Best NonFiction Books of the Month”!
• My appearance on Chicago Tonight
• My interview with Dan Savage on the Lovecast, about my book
• “Was Jahi McMath’s Case Preventable?” with Helen Haskell at Pacific Standard
• guest post by me at Retraction Watch
• review of my book in Forbes
• feature about my work in The Chronicle of Higher Education
• The book is out!
• Read an excerpt of my book at Pacific Standard Magazine
• Read an excerpt of my book at The Scientist
• And the Dead Claims Shall Rise (Once More with Feeling blog)
• Salon’s review of my new book, Galileo’s Middle Finger
• Stirring the Pot: How to Navigate the Slings and Arrows of ‘Controversial’ Research (The Scientist)
• Why Isn’t Sex Education Part of the Common Core? (Pacific Standard) as tweeted by Dan Savage and Nicholas Kristof
• Write-up of our AAMC work at The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Magazine
• Who Are Medical IRBs Really Protecting? (Once More, with Feeling)
• AAMC Report Aims to Improve Care for LGBT, Gender Non-Conforming, and DSD Patients
• Once More, with Feeling (an intro to my new blog)
• a chatty update (including why this site looks all shiny-new)
• starred advance review at Kirkus for Galileo’s Middle Finger
• check out the great cover design and blurbs for my forthcoming book
• quoted in The Atlantic Health, “Transgender People Face Outsized Barriers”
• “Doctor, Let’s Talk about Sex…and Gender” (my essay for Slate)
• Our new AAMC book on medical education to improve care of people who may be LBGT, gender nonconforming, or born with DSD
• Bad Girls, the Atrium issue I edited
• My TED talk up to 914,000 views
• Why I Refer to My Husband, My Romantic Partner, and My Life Companion as My Mate (Pacific Standard)
• John Green of Vlogbrothers names my book One of Us a great book you probably haven’t read
• Quoted in HuffPo on the Obama Administration’s failure to protect babies in research studies
• My essay on talking to kids about sex turns out to be one of the most popular eva at Pacific Standard
• BuzzFeed names my viral essay one of their favorite reads of the week
• BoingBoing on my viral essay
• Dan Savage shares a great anecdote from his latest (fantastic) book while blogging that essay
• Andrew Sullivan on that essay
• Joined with Public Citizen to ask for Inspector General to investigate NIH interference in OHRP actions
• What If We Admitted to Children that Sex is Primarily about Pleasure? (Pacific Standard
• FDA Ethicist’s Undisclosed Conflict of Interest in Prenatal Dex Case (Impact Ethics)
• Leaning Out (Pacific Standard)
• Honored to be featured at the Newcombe Fellowship’s main page
• Do You Have to Pee Standing Up to Be a Real Man? (Pacific Standard)
• Letter to the New York Times with David Epstein on testosterone in sports
• In the Globe & Mail, “Transgender Kids: Have We Gone Too Far?”
• Report on the power outage emergency of 2013
• Speaking Truth to the Power Company
• Try Everything: The BWL Outage of 2013 (One Foot In)
• Risky Teaching: Call Me Spartacus (One Foot In)
• “The SUPPORT Controversy Continues”: my report for Public Responsibility in Medicine & Research
• “The Most Scientific Birth is Often the Least Technological” now in Portuguese
• Sexual Harassment: Beyond Abstinence Education (One Foot In)
• Why Gender Dysphoria Should No Longer Be Considered a a Mental Disorder (now at Pacific Standard Magazine)
• Should We Be Allowed to Choose the Sexual Orientation of Our Children? (now at Pacific Standard Magazine
• The Other Problem with Sex at the Office (now at Pacific Standard Magazine)
• What Would It Take to Get the Government to Worry Less about Our Genders? (now at Pacific Standard Magazine)
• Why Have All Human Cultures, Unlike Many Mammalian Species, Evolved to Value Sexual Privacy? (now at Pacific Standard Magazine)
• Straight Life with Rainbow Flag (now at Pacific Standard Magazine)
• Fetish or Orientation? The Case of Men Wearing Female Masks (now at Pacific Standard Magazine)
• Embrace Your Small Penis (now at Pacific Standard Magazine, and no, I didn’t pick that title!)
• How Being a Gay Boy Is Like Having a Physiological Problem with Milk (now at Pacific Standard Magazine)
• The Old Way to Be Gay? (new at Pacific Standard Magazine)
• Why It’s Critical that Health Agencies Cooperate with Reporters (Pacific Standard Magazine)
• Judging Souls versus Acts in Bioethics (Impact Ethics)
• The Difference between Science and Technology in Birth (Virtual Mentor, on our son’s birth)
• Are We Getting Any Better at Caring for Children with Atypical Sex? (now at Pacific Standard Magazine)
• My report on the HHS meeting of August 28, 2013
• Science Magazine quotes testimony I gave with Susan Reverby at human subjects HHS meeting
• “Why We Tri”: a dialogue with Comic Nurse on why we do triathlons (at Psychology Today)
• Joint testimony with Susan Reverby, PhD, for August 28 meeting of HHS/OHRP related to the SUPPORT trial: Dreger Reverby HHS 2013.pdf
• What Can Be Done about Pedophilia? (an interview with James Cantor, PhD, at The Atlantic)
• What’s Changed in the Care of Children with Atypical Sex? (now at Pacific Standard)
• My bio in the “untraditional women” section of the History of Science Society Women’s Caucus page
• Does Monogamy Really Drive Us to Drink? (now at Pacific Standard)
• Me talking with Dan Savage about sex during menses on the Savage Lovecast (segment starts at about 23:20). If you want to see my menses hut, click here.
• “Pink Boys: What’s the Best Way to Raise Children Who Might Have Gender Identity Issues?” (now at Pacific Standard)
• “The Missing Link between Pedophiles and the Rest of Us” (now at Pacific Standard)
• “Do Gay Men Have More Sexual Interest in Children than Straight Men Do?” (now at Pacific Standard)
• “…the action of saving or being saved…” (One Foot In)
• Letter published at New England Journal of Medicine on failure of informed consent in the SUPPORT trial of interventions on very premature babies (with Ruth Macklin, Lois Shepherd, and 42 other signers we organized).
• SUPPORT and the Question of What It Means to Do Bioethics (at Impact Ethics)
• FAQ on the SUPPORT trial controversy
• Informed Consent for RCTs
• For Kids, Plastic Surgery Not Always the Answer (The Atlantic)
• When to Do Surgery on a Child with ‘Both’ Genitalia (The Atlantic)
• Taking the History, and Giving It Back
• Betsy Lerner is now my literary agent. Pinch me.
• The Worst of All Possible IRB Worlds (One Foot In)
• Interviewed in Margot Talbot’s New Yorker article on transgender adolescents
• A nice shout-out from Steve Pinker at Reddit
• Recipe: gluten-free, dairy-free, complete protein, vegan lasagna that is actually seriously delicious
• A smart Chicago Tribune piece on Chagnon, including why I don’t find him the easiest guy to hang out with
• Off-Label Pregnancy Rx Needs More Regs (my op-ed for Pharmalot)
• “Ending Forced ‘Genital-Normalizing’ Surgeries” (The Atlantic)
• My review for Journal of American HIstory of Laura Stark’s Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research, available through this link.
• “Sex, Lies, and Separating Science from Ideology,” on the smearing of Margaret Mead (for The Atlantic)
• The NYT Magazine follows my work on Chagnon
• “If you’re in a debate, you want Alice Dreger on your side. She has no shortage of passion, and, more important, she’s a diligent researcher, bordering on obsessive.” Tom Barlett in the Chronicle of Higher Education
• “What the Sunshine Act Means for Healthcare Transparency” (The Atlantic)
• “What Is History?” (a reading for students)
• “When Taking Multiple Husbands Makes Sense” (The Atlantic)
• “Growing Up Gay in 2013,” an interview with Joe Schwartz (The Atlantic)
• “IVF on Steroids: The Dangerous Use of ‘Dex’ during Pregnancy” (The Atlantic)
• My team’s white paper report to Northwestern’s medical school on LBGT and human sexuality issues in the curriculum (at this page, lower right)
• Ideas for using savory jams (brought to you by my PMS)
• Our Bodies Ourselves on prenatal dex for CAH
• Where Homosexuality and Masturbation Do Not Exist (The Atlantic)
• A Monocular Life, in Perspective
• Teaching Sex Diversity in Prison
• Losing Kiira
• The Sex Lives of Conjoined Twins (The Atlantic)
• a flashback to my former life as a conjoined twin . . . expert
• ABC News coverage of the prenatal dexamethasone story
• A response to Mount Sinai’s latest defense on prenatal dexamethasone
• BioPolitical Times on the prenatal dexamethasone story
• Buzzfeed coverage of the prenatal dexamethasone story
• Slate coverage of the prenatal dexamethasone story
• New Scientist coverage of the prenatal dexamethasone story
• “Prenatal Dexamethasone for Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: An Ethics Canary in the Modern Medical Mine” (free download at The Journal of Bioethical Inquiry)
• Liars, Cheats, and Writers: The Case of Jonah Lehrer (Psychology Today)
• Rush Limbaugh mocks my dissertation. My life is complete.
• stir-fried dark cabbage with blackberries, garlic, and cashews (recipe)
• Discovery News coverage of my latest Atlantic essay
• Football and the Sexual Side Effects of Head Trauma (The Atlantic)
• “Clinging to Life, Clinging to Hope,” in the Chicago Tribune
• Live Minnesota Public Radio interview on sex testing in sports with Kerri Miller of “The Daily Circuit”
• The Olympic Struggle Over Sex (The Atlantic)
• Falling in Love with Calvin Trillin’s Wife (One Foot In)
• “How to Ex- an ‘Ex-Gay’ Study” (Psychology Today)
• My TED talk is now on Netflix
• “Taking the Monsters Out of the Card Catalog” (Psychology Today; originally published as “Monsters and the Ghosts of PubMed” in Atrium)
• Nice shout-out from Dan Savage
• “Are Straight People Born that Way?” (The Atlantic)
• “The Most Scientific Birth Is Often the Least Technological Birth” (The Atlantic)
• “Who’s Policing the Ethicists?” (One Foot In blog)
• “Writing Teachers” (One Foot In blog)
• “Thick with Child: A Guide to Writing When You Have Kids” (One Foot In blog)
• An English-language translation of the BMJ’s “Ten Commandments of the New Therapeutics” for Psychology Today, with an assist from the mate
• Chicago Tribune story on the struggles faced by transgender adults
• Experimental Status of Prenatal Dexamethasone Reaffirmed (Endocrine Today, with Ellen Feder and Anne Tamar-Mattis)
• Utne Reader has named me a visionary!
• And, in response, my medical school has taken out an ad congratulating me (so sweet)
• Australia’s Passport to Gender Confusion (Bioethics Forum and Psychology Today “Essential Read”)
• “The Controversy Surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex in the Internet Age,” now available for free download at SpringerLink
• Charlie and the Bat (One Foot In blog)
• Interview with The Atlantic Monthly
• Chinese eggplant, with a little explanation of the five stitches in my pinky
• Where Lesbians Are Legal (Psychology Today “Essential Read”)
• Trans Advocates, You’re Doing It Wrong (for a special Queer issue of The Stranger, by invitation of Dan Savage)
• Interviewed for New York Times Magazine article on conjoined twins
• On Naming Names (Bioethics Forum)
• Beware of “Safe and Effective” Claims, Especially When You’re Pregnant (Psychology Today)
• Blotto, Not Beautiful, Medicine (Bioethics Forum). Republished as A Primary Care Doc Walks into a Bar at Psychology Today, and chosen as an Essential Read by the editors.
• Freedom’s Just Another Word for . . . Restriction? (Bioethics Forum)
• Redefining the Sexes in Unequal Terms (New York Times)
• Dr. Oz Can’t Afford Me (Bioethics Forum)
• As much commentary as I have in me on this silly J. Crew pink toenail story (Chicago Tribune)
• “Scholars and Scandal” coverage of “Darkness” work (Inside HIgher Ed)
• Dying for Some Standards: Broken Medical Systems as Revealed by a New FDA Warning (Bioethics Forum)
• I make “Five Best Sunday Columns” list with Nicholas Kristof and Maureen Dowd!
• Are Children Dying for an Inch or Two? (Chicago Tribune)
• Wanting Privacy versus Being Ashamed (Psychology Today)
• Time for the American Anthropological Association to Apologize (Bioethics Forum)
• Do Gay Men Have More Sexual Interest in Children than Gay Men Do? (Psychology Today and SR Honeypot)
• The Gratitude Train (One Foot In and Psychology Today)
• Darkness’s Descent on the American Anthropological Association: A Cautionary Tale (Human Nature)
• Editorial on my Darkness paper in Human Nature
• The Tale of Tea with Jim the Third (Bioethics Forum)
• SPink Boys with Puppy Dog Tails (Bioethics Forum)
• The Remains of the AAA (Psychology Today)
• No Science, Please. We’re Anthropologists. (One Foot In and Psychology Today blog)
• Attenuated Thoughts (Bioethics Forum)
• Nationalizing IRBs for Biomedical Research–and for Justice (Bioethics Forum)
• ESPN “Outside the LInes” interview on sex testing in sports
• Conversation with Under the Microscope (a publication of The Feminist Press)
• Legal but Unethical: Who Works on That? (Bioethics Forum)
• Who Will Protect Our Children from Bad Drug Experimentation? (Psychology Today)
• The Other July Effect: Tribalism in Medicine (at Bioethics Forum and Psychology Today)
• The Problem with Plagiarism (One Foot In blog)
• Cleaning the Closets of Medicine (Psychology Today)
• Meet the Hebephiles, the Missing Link between Pedophiles and the Rest of Us . . . Um, Except in Rome (Psychology Today)
• Nature Med blog on the dex story
• Coverage of our new Bioethics Forum post by Dan Savage, Andrew Sullivan, Joe My God, Pam’s House Blend, towleroad, Box Turtle Bulletin, Daily Kos, Huffington Post
• To Have Is To Hold (an argument against preventing gay children; Psychology Today blog)
• Preventing Homosexuality (and Uppity Women) in the Womb? (Bioethics Forum, with Ellen K. Feder and Anne Tamar-Mattis)
• Toronto Star coverage of “Bad Vibrations”
• Don’t Calm Down Just Yet (Psychology Today blog response to Hanna Rosin’s Slate coverage of our work)
• Time magazine on our prenatal dex work (a must-read for those interested in dex: excellent research and reporting)
• Bad Vibrations (Bioethics Forum, with Ellen K. Feder)