In conversation: Nathan Lents, author of ‘The Sexual Evolution’

Nathan H. Lents is a professor of biology at the John Jay College of criminal justice in New York. Yes, you read that right. John Jay was set up, according to its website, ‘in the mid-1950s in response to the increased complexity of administering and operating the New York City Police Department and relations between police and the community’ and is a ‘Hispanic- and Minority-Serving Institution’ which wants to ‘educat[e] traditionally underrepresented groups and [is] committed to increasing diversity in the workforce’. You don’t get more social justice warrior than that. The science department naturally has a bias towards forensics, toxicology, etc, though you can do a Cell and Molecular Biology Bachelor of Science.

Eli Erlick on ‘Before Gender’

Erlick wrote in the book in response to the current attack on trans people, particularly trans youth in the US and UK (which turned out to be a very strong theme of the conversation, surprise, surprise). He chose the stories according to how useful they would be in providing counterpoints to arguments presented by the gender critical movement. So, not at all cynical then.

Book review: Talk to Me by Munroe Bergdorf

It’s been a big year for Bergdorf, as this Penguin how-to/self-help book, called Talk To Me (how to talk about the things that matter) was published. And there was also the documentary Love & Rage: Munroe Bergdorf. These were released within days of each other. As of the date of writing, there is one review on Amazon, and, unusually, not a single endorsement embedded into the official blurb. These people all have the same agent, so it’s not like there’s a dearth of Z-list slebs to gush over the truly inexecrable, therefore I suspect a marketing choice.

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