Magamama With Kimberly Ann Johnson: Sex, Birth And Motherhood

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 o