Bitch reviews Fixing Sex

The first review is in and it’s from Bitch Magazine. I am thrilled to bits they decided to review it and really pleased that Summer Wood, the reviewer, noted that “Karkazis never loses sight of the authentic lived experiences of intersexed people and their families. . . . Fixing Sex . . . offers a compassionately written discussion of interest to anyone concerned with gender and sexuality, health activism, and human rights.” Really, that was the point of writing the book. I was never interested in adding to some academic debate about gender and intersex. Rather, I was interested in the lives of people and I wanted to see if I could add something to the debates that would help to improve treatment. The funny thing about writing a book is that you have all kinds of ideas about what you want to accomplish with the book and how you want to sound (I suppose writerly folks call this voice). I worked on so many drafts for so long I had no idea if I had come anywhere near accomplishing what I set out to do so it’s interesting finally to hear others’ takes on the book. Anyway, if you want to read the review, it’s here.