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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.

Check out the episode on the blog HERE: https://postpartumu.com/podcast/the-war-on-womens-language-with-milli-hill-ep-243/

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.

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