Recent Press
The Guardian: Nine major myths about the pill – from cancer to weight gain
Last month, the UK’s Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare announced updated guidelines on oral contraceptives, declaring a seven-day break each month to bleed unnecessary. This prompted many women to voice their anger at having been seemingly hoodwinked by...
Washington Post: ‘It’s not in your head’ – Striking new study links birth control to depression
“Today in vindication,” wrote a woman on Twitter on Tuesday, summarizing the way many have received a striking new study that found those who use birth control — especially teenage girls — may be at a significantly higher risk of experiencing depression. The research,...
Broadly: The Racist & Sexist History of Keeping Birth Control Side Effects Secret
On September 2016, JAMA Psychiatry published a Danish study that found a correlation between the use of hormonal birth control and being diagnosed with clinical depression. The study tracked hormonal birth control use and prescription of antidepressants over...
VICE: Why Can’t We Be More Critical of the Pill?
Like an inflatable penis pool toy at a hen's party, for many women the Pill has been a license to go wild. Simply by taking a tiny tablet every day, a woman can outsmart her inbuilt baby-making equipage and enjoy worry-free sex. But while the majority of the 100+...
Sister Magazine: Sweetening The Pill
If you've picked up a copy of our latest issue (and if you haven't, you can here) you'll know that our EIC Beccy Hill interviewed Holly Grigg Spall about her incredible research into the contraceptive pill and it's effects on women's mental and physical health. After...
BBC News: My Nightmare On The Pill
Millions of women rely on the contraceptive pill and many are happy with it - but some find it has a devastating effect on their mental health. Here Vicky Spratt, deputy editor of The Debrief, describes years of depression, anxiety and panic as she tried one version...
Study Links Depression with Birth Control, Especially for Teen Girls
Women using birth control - especially teenagers - are at significantly higher risk of depression, according to a new study from Denmark that tracked more than a million women. The report in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows...
MagaMama Episode 51
Holly Grigg-Spall on Birth Control, Feminism & Moving Forward Holly Griggs-Spall, author of Sweetening the Pill, shares how her mental health changed when she stopped taking hormonal birth control. She shares her own journey, the dearth of critical examination of...