Jessica Valenti: How have I changed?
CHOICE/LESS
English - June 14, 2016 04:47 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 111 ratingsPersonal Journals Society & Culture abortion reproductive rights reproductive justice women's rights supreme court serial storytelling pro-choice pro-life contraception Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Kelsey: Who can we talk to?
Next Episode: Brittany: Why wouldn't someone help me?
Jessica Valenti is a feminist author, co-founder of Feministing.com, and columnist at The Guardian US. Her new book, Sex Object, explores what it's like to come of age as a female in a misogynist, patriarchal society.
Her experiences with abortion and motherhood have reinforced her feminist, pro-choice beliefs. Valenti has had two abortions. The first was the result of an unwanted pregnancy, and the second ended a very wanted pregnancy that could have been fatal. The first wasn't a difficult decision at all: she just didn't want to be pregnant. The second was profoundly painful. Still, she says, one experience was not more valid than the other.
Listen to her full story here.