What Holly Shares:
- Untangling hormonal birth control from feminism
- Why she was on the pill as a teen even before she was sexually active
- The positive effects the pill had for her
- The mental health affects the pill had on her
- Her journey discovering who she was without hormonal birth control
What You’ll Hear:
- The cultural marriage between feminism and the pill
- The pushback she received against her writing criticizing synthetic hormones
- How feminism has changed in the last 10 years
- Various forms of feminism and what they mean for women
- How the pill has become our cultural right of passage
- How hormonal birth control helped manage her painful periods
- Letting go of fear and embracing your teen’s sexuality
- Teen pregnancy vs. side effects of hormonal birth control
- The paranoia, depression, and obsessive compulsive behavior she developed while on the pill
- Rediscovering her emotional landscape post synthetic hormones
- The dearth of critical examination of the pill’s side effects
- Side effects of the pill including reduced senses, lactation, and suicidal thoughts
- Why so many women are suffering from anhedonia and are unable to experience inherent pleasure in life
- Questioning how synthetic hormones affect our birthing, our parenting, and attachment
- Reclaiming the power of your own emotions, sense of self, and libido
- How synthetic hormones affect your attraction to other people
- Getting support for your own journey leaving hormonal birth control
- Learning about fertility awareness within the context of feminism
- Imagining a future of feminist fertility awareness plus somatic consent practice
- Embracing men and boys in the feminist fertility movement
- How coming off of the pill can be part of a social movement