An Intersex Professor's Memoir of Fraud and Family

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Oct 2, 2025

In response to J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, Georgiann Davis shares the story of how she went from a seventh-grade dropout to a celebrated professor of sociology. The University of New Mexico professor and author of Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis joins us to discuss her new memoir, Five Star White Trash: A Memoir of Fraud and Family.

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