Our helpers are the artist Chris Dreger (my big brother), my neurologist friend Megan Shanks, and Anthony Paganini, a physiologist who thinks a lot about how the body works as a feedback system, looping ontologically and phylogenetically. What are we not doing with the bodies we have left in the time we have left? This question has always been for me one that hides a bigger question: It wasn’t just about me wondering if I should try – as my brother Chris has long suggested – to get my brain to recognize the information coming from my left eye. She has appeared as a guest expert on hundreds of media programs, including on Oprah, Savage Love, Good Morning America, and NPR, and in many original documentaries, including for A&E, ABC, Discovery, PBS, and HBO.When I first thought about doing a series of audio essays centered around gently nagging questions, this was one of the first questions I wrote down: Should I use my second eyeball? Alice has a TEDx lecture, “Is Anatomy Destiny,” which has been viewed over a million times. The same book has been praised by Jeffrey Eugenides and Abraham Verghese and was honored by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. John Green has named her book One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal as among his favorites. in history and philosophy of science from Indiana University. “I’m always working to find out what’s true in the hope it will lead us to treat each other better.”Īlice is a scholar and activist on intersex and gender issues. A writer, historian, and journalist and author of Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice.Īlice has a TEDx lecture, “Is Anatomy Destiny,” which has been viewed over a million timesĪlice is the author of several books including her best-known Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice, which argues that the pursuit of evidence is the most important ethical imperative of our time.
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