It’s A War on Women

Abstract

My piece concerns itself with the gendered gap in the research of birth control and specifically its symptoms. It was inspired by clinical trials of a symptomless birth control for men being developed in the United States. This comes after decades of women being subjected to harsh symptoms of birth control such as pain, cramping, dizziness, soreness, nausea, headaches, irritability, and in extreme cases, blood clots, strokes, and heart attacks; all the while being belittled by doctors when they try to seek remedies for their ailments. I’d like to bring awareness to the list of instructions, warnings, and symptoms that women receive with every single form of birth control they may use. In a state of artistic anger, these rebellions were created. The materials used are alcohol markers on a birth control symptom sheet.