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Chaos & Control
by Currents Media
Chaos and Control is a documentary-style podcast exploring the story of birth control in America. It takes a critical look at the history of the birth control movement and the development of the pill, the work and impact of various women's health movements, the criminalization of contraception and abortion, and the social and cultural systems that have shaped the current conversation around birth control. Like, what is the role of hormonal birth control in a post-Roe America? Is birth control toxic? Why are so many women sharing their negative experiences? What does contraception free from coercion look like? And most importantly, how did we get here? Explore these questions and more—as well as interviews with historians, sociologists, doulas, and young women—in Chaos & Control.
Episodes
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Episode 09: Visions for the Future
In our final episode, we’re looking to the future. You’ll hear once again from sociologist Dr. Krystale Littlejohn, philanthropist Chelsea VonChaz, body literacy educator Sarah Bly, and others about their visions for the future. Together, their wisdom charts a course towards creating a future…
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Episode 08: Body Literacy as Reproductive Resistance
Amidst all the anxiety and uncertainty in our current landscape, can body literacy offer a guiding light for navigating our autonomy in the face of reproductive oppression? In this episode, we’re going to be exploring the idea of body literacy as reproductive resistance in post-Roe America. Last...
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Episode 07: Our Bodies, Our Birth Control
In all the conversation about birth control, you’ve likely heard at least one person mention the fertility awareness method, or the idea that you can track your menstrual cycle as a form of contraception. And you’ve likely heard more than one person deride this as unreliable or dangerous...
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Episode 06: Going Beyond Choice
In this episode, we explore the crucial question: what are we getting wrong when it comes to our conversations around hormonal birth control post Roe – and are we even having the right conversations? First, we take a look at the idea of choice, a cornerstone of the modern reproductive rights...
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Episode 05: Are Periods Obsolete? Part 02
In this episode, we’re continuing our conversation about periods and menstrual suppression. We dive deeply into period stigma and the pathologization of periods, as well as the epidemic of severe menstrual pain, and how our current system fails women. We also explore the importance of ovulation,...
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Episode 05: Are Periods Obsolete? Part 01
In this episode, we dive into menstrual suppression. We explore the ways in which women’s bodies and health have been and continue to be disregarded by the medical system, how pharmaceutical companies have co-opted feminist language in order to market new contraceptives, and the shifting social…
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Episode 04: Rebrands, Recalls, and Reformers
In the later decades of the 1900s, pharmaceutical companies, the US government, and a number of wealthy foundations were pouring resources into developing new contraceptive technologies — some driven by a desire for profit, and others by the promise of new birth control technologies that could...
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Episode 03: The Myth of the Magic Bullet
In this episode, we explore the birth of the oral contraceptive pill – and the science, social backdrop, and exploitation of women that made it all possible. You can find all the sources & references for this episode at www.currentsmedia.co/chaos-control-sources Questions or comments? You can…
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Episode 02: The Dark History of the Birth Control Movement
When most of us think about the “birth control movement”, we likely think about chants of my body my choice, campaigns for birth control de-stigmatization, and the fight for reproductive rights more broadly. Today, it seems like a cornerstone of feminist thought, and something that unites the...
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Episode 01: This is a Podcast About the Pill
The dominant understanding of the pill is that it was a great liberator of women. That, for the first time ever, it allowed women to take control of their reproductive destinies. But…is that true? In this week’s episode we set the stage for exploring the role of hormonal birth control in a…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Chaos and Control is a documentary-style podcast exploring the story of birth control in America. It takes a critical look at the history of the birth control movement and the development of the pill, the work and impact of various women's health movements, the criminalization of contraception and abortion, and the social and cultural systems that have shaped the current conversation around birth control.
Like, what is the role of hormonal birth control in a post-Roe America? Is birth control toxic? Why are so many women sharing their negative experiences? What does contraception free from coercion look like? And most importantly, how did we get here? Explore these questions and more—as well as interviews with historians, sociologists, doulas, and young women—in Chaos & Control.
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