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The War on Women's Language with Milli Hill EP 243

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If you feel like you & your clients are losing a battle, you need to listen. Journalist and activist Milli Hill connects the dots on how the industrialized assault on female health is a unified war on women's autonomy. Milli connects the industrialized assault on female health to the rise of PPD and birth trauma. We expose the truth your perinatal mental health clients face: how ultra-processed food, profit-driven medicalization of childbirth, and sex-based language erasure attack the biological reality of motherhood.

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Key time stamps:

02:20 Ultra-Processed Women Why changing diet is a radical act of resistance
04:45 Disconnection from nature and the body as a systemic issues
09:06 The link between industrialization, profit, and the patriarchal control over women's bodies
12:11 Why the saying "all that matters is a healthy baby" minimizes the woman's birth experience and value
14:15 Moms and babies are not fine/ moving away from normalization of struggle
16:16 Navigating the debate around sex-based language and cancel culture
25:00 Distinguishing between individual inclusion/pronoun respect and population-level language erasure
26:37 The erasure of women in politics and publications creates a new form of censorship
28:58 Language war is a men's rights movement aiming to decouple womanhood from female biology
31:00 "What About Women?"

Connect with Milli

Milli Hill is a best-selling author, feminist journalist, and advocate known for reframing the narrative around women's bodies and autonomy in health. She is the author of The Positive Birth Book, Give Birth like a Feminist, and the critically acclaimed Ultra Processed Women. She founded and ran the Positive Birth Movement (2012-2021), a global network focused on improving birth experiences. A leading voice in the debate around sex-based language in maternity care, she writes the popular Substack, WHAT ABOUT WOMEN, which focuses on feminism, sex/gender issues, and the erasure of women from language, alongside her Substack Unprocess (exploring a less processed plate and life). She lives in Somerset with her family.

Website | IG | Substack

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Chapters

1. The Postpartum Care Crisis (00:00:00)

2. Meet The Guest And Her Work (00:00:36)

3. Food As Radical Resistance (00:02:33)

4. From Diet To Disconnection (00:05:33)

5. Gratitude, Nature, And Food (00:10:17)

6. Autonomy, Industry, And Women’s Bodies (00:13:52)

7. Birth Safety Versus Lived Experience (00:17:27)

8. Are We Really Okay Postpartum (00:22:02)

9. Sex-Based Language And Backlash (00:25:12)

10. Surviving Cancellation And Finding Allies (00:30:37)

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