Fixing Sex

I taped a great interview with Bob Barrett for The Health Show, a WAMC program that airs on a bunch of public radio affiliates around the country. It airs locally (i.e., Albany, NY) on Thursday, January 29th at 3PM EST and again Sunday, February 1 at 6:30PM EST. It goes nationally to the affiliates on Friday, January 30th and will also be posted on The Health Show website Friday.

I just taped an episode of Bay Area People with the marvelous Rosy Chu. It’ll air on KTVU at 6:30am this Saturday, December 13, 2008. If you’re not an early riser, it’ll also be available for free on Comcast on Demand. I’ll try to put a link to it somehow.

I’ll also be on Against the Grain with C.S. Song on December 22, 2008. There are a few ways to listen:

• On the Radio: Noon to 1 pm PT Monday through Wednesday on KPFA 94.1 FM and KFCF 88.1 FM in Northern and Central California

• On the Web, Live: Noon to 1 pm PT Monday through Wednesday at kpfa.org

• On the Web, via podcast subscription or archived on the ATG website.

The little yellow tab on Amazon has gone from “pre-order” to “add to basket,” which means the books are shipping! And I’ve already heard from folks they have gotten their copies. Writing this book took much longer than I expected and some days I wasn’t sure the book would ever come out, so this is pretty darn thrilling. I have a few upcoming talks. The first one is in person and the second on air. Please come or tune in. You can even call in for the Leonard Lopate Show.

I’ll be reading at Bookslut in Chicago on December 2, 2008. More info is here.

I’ll be on the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC on December 5, 2008 from 12:20-1pm. I’ll be joined by Janet Green and Katie Baratz to talk about their experiences growing up with an intersex condition, or disorder of sex development.

Erin Digitale did a great job writing a short story about Fixing Sex that is accompanied by a podcast interview with the fantastic Paul Costello, executive director of Communication & Public Affairs at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Enjoy!

Another review of Fixing Sex in from Feminist Review.

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.