Hormones Matter

Tag: hormonal birth control

Is Biology Destiny? Being Female and Hormonal Birth Control

What does it feel like to be female?Why is discussion of female biology so controversial?How does “biology is not destiny” thinking and anti-essentialism impact how we think about being female?In a blog post I wrote some years back titled ‘Beyond Female’  I asked those  questions. It would later became the catalyst for my forthcoming book […]

Male Birth Control – Myth or Available Science?

I’ve never been able to take hormonal birth control. I have tried and the side effects were so extreme that I almost ended up in the ER more than once. After telling each new doctor my past horror stories, they would each reassure me that I simply had the wrong doses and had to try […]