Completed my 2024 grand rounds – I have some mixed feelings about it overall, to be honest.
I initially wanted to do a broad topic to “get back into it” and re-debut in my department after being on grand rounds haitus for almost 5 years, but that meant it ended up being less polished, slightly rushed, and much material. My original plan to “build sexuality and gender from the ground-up” didn’t have enough nuance and either wasn’t enough material or was not “clinical” enough, so instead I approached it from a historic perspective of labels.
It felt more like a lecture – by which I mean my lectures are sometimes not stream-lined, a lot of information, and less polished, whereas my grand rounds are historically optimized, clearly articulated, and under time. That’s the problem with a broad topic, I guess.
Anyway, I may try to post it here like I did the asexuality one – but there is a HUGE disclaimer about this one. Whereas I often intentional put 90%+ of what I say on my slides so that the slides can be used as a reference later (this doesn’t mean that I read the slides in a boring fashion, but that any point I’m saying outside of them is at least written down for future use,) I definitely didn’t do that as much in this talk. A lot of the explanations, flavor, and important disclaimers are not on the slides. Maybe I should write some notes on them?
I’m not sure what my next project is – already signed up for another grand rounds in a year, plus put my name out there for the sex health group to do a talk on asexuality (may do the same talk for both?) Also have a chronic project / idea for a project about the neuropsychiatry of sex / sexuality – kind of a better version of my past “Sex and the Brain” talk.