A few years ago, I was hired to help write a book about the history of film exhibition. It wasn’t a subject I knew a lot about, but the abundance of research…
Tag: birth control
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Nicole Jardim — “The Period Girl” — about how understanding hormones and your menstrual cycle can change your life.
“We can’t do this as individuals — we have to do this as sisters.”
In this episode, Meghan Murphy speaks with Mary Lou Singleton, a midwife, nurse practitioner, and reproductive sovereignty activist about everything from self-abortion to midwifery to where the reproductive rights movement went wrong.
Ever since Brie Ripley was young, she knew she didn’t want to reproduce. But despite her struggles with other birth control methods, doctors refused to allow her access to a tubal ligation…
In this episode, I speak with Holly Grigg-Spall, author of Sweetening the Pill or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control. In the book, she looks at women’s experiences with the…