A social history of estrogen and testosterone

We will review the history of what people have believed about estrogen and testosterone, how they acted on those beliefs, how those beliefs changed over time, and how we arrived a the beliefs commonly held today

Learning Objectives:

• The long history of medical scandals involving estrogen and testosterone
• The strange and conflicting ways estrogen and testosterone have been used to treat homosexuality
• The strange and conflicting ways estrogen and testosterone have been seen and used by the LGBT community
• The role of estrogen and testosterone in the creation of Big Pharma

Presenter Bio:

Bob Ostertag’s work cannot easily be summarized or pigeonholed. He has published more than twenty albums of music, seven books, two podcasts, and a feature film. His writings on contemporary politics have been published on every continent and in many languages, beginning with his work as a journalist covering the civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s. His books cover a wide range of topics, from labor unions to the history of journalism to estrogen and testosterone. His writing has won the “Most Censored Story of the Year” award from Project Censored and the “Most Important Book of the Year” designation from The Nation. He has performed at many of the world’s great concert halls and museums: Lincoln Center (New York), Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), Strozzi Palace (Firenze), Hiroshima Museum of Art (Japan), Institute for Contemporary Art (London), the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, and more. His radically diverse musical collaborators include the Kronos Quartet, John Zorn, Mike Patton, transgender cabaret icon Justin Vivian Bond, British guitar innovator Fred Frith, EDM DJ Rose, and many others. He was an original member of the media guerrilla group The Yes Men. He directed, edited and produced Thanks to Hank, a feature documentary on the unsung hero of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. He produces podcasts, one on poverty in the US and another of queer oral history, and works with Manos Amigues, an LGBT-run soup kitchen in Mexico City, and Kebaya, a shelter for victims of sexual violence in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Therapy First has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7505. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Therapy First is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. This webinar provide 1.5 hours of CE credits.