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Sage SociologySex & Sexualities - Nurturing a Sociology of Sex and SexualitiesThe inaugural editors in chief, Krystale Littlejohn and Amy Stone, discuss the new journal launched by the American Sociological Association, Sex & Sexualities.
2025-06-0921 min
Chaos & ControlEpisode 09: Visions for the FutureIn our final episode, we’re looking to the future.You’ll hear once again from sociologist Dr. Krystale Littlejohn, philanthropist Chelsea VonChaz, body literacy educator Sarah Bly, and others about their visions for the future. Together, their wisdom charts a course towards creating a future which is empowering, supportive, and liberatory for all.Find body literacy resources hereYou can find all the sources & references for this episode hereQuestions or comments? You can reach us by email at sabrina@currentsmedia.coFollow along:Chaos & Control webs...
2025-05-0733 min
Why? with Emma KennedyWhy aren’t men on the Pill?Since the first contraceptive pill came out in 1961, the burden of birth control has fallen overwhelmingly on women. While women have numerous birth control options – each with its own long list of dizzying side effects – men only have two, and there hasn’t been a new commercial contraceptive for men in decades. So, why isn’t there a male pill yet? And would men even take it if there was? Emma Kennedy talks to two experts on contraception – endocrinology professor Stephanie Page and associate sociology professor Krystale Littlejohn, author of Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burd...
2024-12-1936 min
Why? with Emma KennedyWhy aren’t men on the Pill?Since the first contraceptive pill came out in 1961, the burden of birth control has fallen overwhelmingly on women. While women have numerous birth control options – each with its own long list of dizzying side effects – men only have two, and there hasn’t been a new commercial contraceptive for men in decades. So, why isn’t there a male pill yet? And would men even take it if there was? Emma Kennedy talks to two experts on contraception – endocrinology professor Stephanie Page and associate sociology professor Krystale Littlejohn, author of Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burd...
2024-12-1941 min
The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander HeffnerThe Future of Reproductive FreedomUniversity of Oregon sociologist Krystale Littlejohn discusses the post-Roe climate in the United States.
2024-08-0227 min
rePROs Fight BackKrystale Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger on their New Book, Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. WadeMourning, anger, and grief were top-line emotions after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Still, a recently released collection of essays and stories highlights the very real and inspiring on-the-ground work and experiences of reproductive justice leaders, health care professionals, patients, artists, legislators, and more in the wake of Roe’s overturning. Krystale Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger, editors of Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade, sits down to remind us about the fact that resistance is everywhere in the fight for abortion and reproductive justice in the United States.Criminalization, po...
2024-06-0443 min
Press Play On This Binge-Worthy Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Fighting Mad by Krystale E. Littlejohn - editor, Rickie Solinger - editorPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/160868to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Fighting Mad
Author: Krystale E. Littlejohn - editor, Rickie Solinger - editor
Narrator: Deanna Anthony
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
Release date: 05-28-24
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Genres: History
Publisher's Summary:
A fierce and galvanizing reminder that resistance is everywhere in the fight for abortion and reproductive justice in the United States. Fighting Mad is a book about what "reproductive justice" means and what it looks like to fight for it. Editors Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger bring together many of the strongest, most resistant voices...
2024-05-2810h 15
A Public AffairVigorously Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade
Next month will mark 2 years since the Supreme Court stripped us of our federal right to abortion. What does reproductive autonomy mean without Roe?
To answer this question, two scholar activists and editors, Krystale E. Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger, gather the strongest and most resilient voices in their recently published collection of essays, FIGHTING MAD: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade.
Littlejohn and Solinger discuss the criminalization of abortion care, the responses by religious leaders on the issue of bodily autonomy, the problems with codifying people’s religious faith into law...
2024-05-2252 min
Woke AF DailyProfiles in CourageKrystale Littlejohn returned to Woke AF Daily to discuss the new book Fighting Mad and how we fight for reproductive rights after the fall of Roe v. Wade.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2024-03-2525 minWoke AF DailyProfiles in CourageKrystale Littlejohn returned to Woke AF Daily to discuss the new book Fighting Mad and how we fight for reproductive rights after the fall of Roe v. Wade.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2024-03-2525 min
Flux Podcasts (Formerly Theory of Change)Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v Wade, a Conversation with Dr. Krystale E. LittlejohnDr. Krystale E. Littlejohn, professor and author of the book "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics," discusses her latest book, "Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade," a collection of 52 essays she edited alongside historian, and author Dr. Rickie Solinger. This incredible collection features essays from some of the most formidable thinkers, leaders, and activists of our time, each exploring critical and overlooked aspects of our ongoing fight for reproductive justice. The book presents a much-needed conversation in our post-Roe landscape, and provides a roadmap for how to move forward with a...
2024-03-2142 min
The Electorette PodcastFighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v Wade, a Conversation with Dr. Krystale E. LittlejohnDr. Krystale E. Littlejohn, professor and author of the book "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics," discusses her latest book, "Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade," a collection of 52 essays she edited alongside historian, and author Dr. Rickie Solinger. This incredible collection features essays from some of the most formidable thinkers, leaders, and activists of our time, each exploring critical and overlooked aspects of our ongoing fight for reproductive justice. The book presents a much-needed conversation in our post-Roe landscape, and provides a roadmap for how to move forward with a...
2024-03-2142 min
Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not SorryFighting Mad: Intersectional Perspectives on Protecting Abortion with Krystale Littlejohn and Rickie SolingerFor half a century, Roe vs. Wade was the law of the land. While states continued to attack the rights of pregnant people to our bodies, we had that basic fact to give us some refuge. That is now gone, thanks to an extremist Supreme Court. To discuss where we are and where we might go, we’ve invited Rickie Solinger and Krystale Littlejohn–co-Editors of the new anthology “Fighting Mad: Resisting the End of Roe v. Wade” onto the show.
2024-03-1846 min
51 PercentKrystale Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger on “Fighting Mad”On the latest 51%, we speak with the editors of Fighting Mad, a new book of essays reimagining the abortion rights — or rather, reproductive justice — movement. WAMC’s Samantha Simmons also brings us to a public hearing on the proposed closure of Burdett Birth Center in Troy, New York, and we learn about the life and career of American photographer Rollie McKenna.
Guests: Krystale E. Littlejohn, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon, author, and editor of the Reproductive Justice book series from University of California Press; Rickie Solinger, historian, curator, author and editor of the Reproduc...
2024-03-0729 min51 PercentKrystale Littlejohn and Rickie Solinger on “Fighting Mad”On the latest 51%, we speak with the editors of Fighting Mad, a new book of essays reimagining the abortion rights — or rather, reproductive justice — movement. WAMC’s Samantha Simmons also brings us to a public hearing on the proposed closure of Burdett Birth Center in Troy, New York, and we learn about the life and career of American photographer Rollie McKenna.
Guests: Krystale E. Littlejohn, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon, author, and editor of the Reproductive Justice book series from University of California Press; Rickie Solinger, historian, curator, author and editor of the Reproduc...
2024-03-0729 minAnnex Sociology PodcastKrystale Littlejohn’s Just Get on the PillIn today's episode of The Annex, Daniel Morrison sits down with Krystale Littlejohn to discuss her book Just Get on the Pill (2021, University of California Press).
2024-02-261h 05
New Books in Women's HistoryKrystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)The average person concerned about becoming pregnant spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. People largely do so alone using prescription birth control, a situation often taken for granted in the United States as natural and beneficial. In Just Get On the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics (University of California Press, 2021), a keenly researched and incisive examination, Krystale Littlejohn investigates how birth control becomes a fundamentally unbalanced and gendered responsibility. She uncovers how parents, peers, partners, and providers draw on narratives of male and female birth control methods to socialize cisgender women into sex and...
2022-10-271h 02
New Books in Politics and PolemicsKrystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)The average person concerned about becoming pregnant spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. People largely do so alone using prescription birth control, a situation often taken for granted in the United States as natural and beneficial. In Just Get On the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics (University of California Press, 2021), a keenly researched and incisive examination, Krystale Littlejohn investigates how birth control becomes a fundamentally unbalanced and gendered responsibility. She uncovers how parents, peers, partners, and providers draw on narratives of male and female birth control methods to socialize cisgender women into sex and...
2022-10-271h 02
New Books in MedicineKrystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)The average person concerned about becoming pregnant spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. People largely do so alone using prescription birth control, a situation often taken for granted in the United States as natural and beneficial. In Just Get On the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics (University of California Press, 2021), a keenly researched and incisive examination, Krystale Littlejohn investigates how birth control becomes a fundamentally unbalanced and gendered responsibility. She uncovers how parents, peers, partners, and providers draw on narratives of male and female birth control methods to socialize cisgender women into sex and...
2022-10-271h 02
New Books In Public HealthKrystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)The average person concerned about becoming pregnant spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. People largely do so alone using prescription birth control, a situation often taken for granted in the United States as natural and beneficial. In Just Get On the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics (University of California Press, 2021), a keenly researched and incisive examination, Krystale Littlejohn investigates how birth control becomes a fundamentally unbalanced and gendered responsibility. She uncovers how parents, peers, partners, and providers draw on narratives of male and female birth control methods to socialize cisgender women into sex and...
2022-10-271h 01
New Books in GenderKrystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)The average person concerned about becoming pregnant spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. People largely do so alone using prescription birth control, a situation often taken for granted in the United States as natural and beneficial. In Just Get On the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics (University of California Press, 2021), a keenly researched and incisive examination, Krystale Littlejohn investigates how birth control becomes a fundamentally unbalanced and gendered responsibility. She uncovers how parents, peers, partners, and providers draw on narratives of male and female birth control methods to socialize cisgender women into sex and...
2022-10-271h 02
New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex WorkKrystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)The average person concerned about becoming pregnant spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. People largely do so alone using prescription birth control, a situation often taken for granted in the United States as natural and beneficial. In Just Get On the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics (University of California Press, 2021), a keenly researched and incisive examination, Krystale Littlejohn investigates how birth control becomes a fundamentally unbalanced and gendered responsibility. She uncovers how parents, peers, partners, and providers draw on narratives of male and female birth control methods to socialize cisgender women into sex and...
2022-10-271h 01New Books in Politics and PolemicsKrystale E. Littlejohn, "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics" (U California Press, 2021)The average person concerned about becoming pregnant spends approximately thirty years trying to prevent conception. People largely do so alone using prescription birth control, a situation often taken for granted in the United States as natural and beneficial. In Just Get On the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics (University of California Press, 2021), a keenly researched and incisive examination, Krystale Littlejohn investigates how birth control becomes a fundamentally unbalanced and gendered responsibility. She uncovers how parents, peers, partners, and providers draw on narratives of male and female birth control methods to socialize cisgender women into sex and...
2022-10-271h 02
The Story of WomanS1 E18. BONUS: A Compilation of StorytellersThe authors we feature come from a huge range of sectors and industries, but they all have one thing in common: they’re using their voices to create societal change, and that change means elevating the role and the story of woman. In this special episode, we’ve compiled past interview responses to the podcast’s recurring questions:
What does feminism mean to you - 5:40
What is the story of woman to you - 10:50
We’d love to hear your take on these questions, and on the topics we discuss with our authors and contributo...
2022-09-0521 min
Let's Grab CoffeeJust Get On the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics with Dr. Krystale LittlejohnEpisode Notes
“Birth control” is for women and condoms are for men, or at least that’s the general approach to contraceptives. These gendered expectations around types of birth control methods put the primary responsibility for preventing pregnancy on women with crucial consequences for women’s reproductive health, women’s bodily autonomy, and gender inequality. On this episode, SunAh sits down with Dr. Krystale Littlejohn, an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon and the author of Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics to talk about how this framing limits everyone’s u...
2022-08-2954 min
Faithful on the ClockHow to Get Over Your Fear of Public SpeakingFaithful on the Clock is a podcast with the mission of getting your work and faith aligned. We want you to understand Who you're serving and why so you can get more joy and legacy from every minute spent on the clock. Thanks for joining us and taking this step toward a more fulfilling job and relationship with God!Want to join us on social media? We'd love to have you stay up-to-date with the show on all our platforms!TwitterFacebookPinterestInstagramLinkedIn
2022-08-0118 min
UO TodayUO Today interview: Krystale Littlejohn, assistant professor, Sociology, University of OregonKrystale Littlejohn is an assistant professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. She is an affiliated faculty member in the Global Health Program and the Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies Program.
Littlejohn’s research focuses on the intersection of race, gender, and reproduction.
Her monograph Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics was published in 2021.
2022-04-2829 minThe Story of WomanS1 E7. Woman and Birth Control: Dr Krystale Littlejohn, Just Get on the PillIn this episode, I talk with Associate Professor of Sociology Dr Kystale Littlejohn about her book, Just Get on the Pill. A keenly researched and incisive examination, Dr Littlejohn investigates how birth control became a fundamentally unbalanced and gendered responsibility.Though it takes two people to make a pregnancy, prevention is seen almost entirely as a woman’s responsibility. In Just Get On The Pill, Dr Littlejohn breaks this down, unpacking how this gendered approach encroaches on reproductive and bodily autonomy and poses obstacles for preventing disease. Some topics of discussion include:
Society’s ideas...
2022-04-111h 23The Story of WomanThe Story of Woman teaserThe consequences of woman's exclusion from our world are so deeply embedded that they are all but impossible to see, unless you are looking. Through interviews with authors of non-fictions books, each episode explores a different part of our world through the perspective it is missing: woman’s.From a man's world to mother nature, our world is shaped by gender. So when one half is left out, the story of humankind becomes something else entirely. By adding women back in, we will begin to understand what it means to be fully human and discover a better pa...
2022-02-1704 min
Proofing and Lies031 Chocolate Opera Cake and No Real Choice with Prof. Katrina KimportThis week Elle and Andrew talk with Professor Katrina Kimport about her new book, No Real Choice, and her recent article "What are We Forgetting" (co-authored with Prof. Krystale Littlejohn). Prof. Kimport discusses the legal, financial, and social barriers to abortion. Andrew and Elle tackle the opera cake - a seven layer dessert that can be quite tricky. Check out Prof. Kimport's work and the work of her research group, ANSIRH, here: https://www.ansirh.org and check out this week's bake on Instagram @ProofingAndLies or on twitter @ProofingL
Interview begins at 6:45
2021-10-2553 min
The Nomiki Show#FemFriday Jillian Jacklin, Krystale Littlejohn, Kate Willett & Francesca Fiorentini | TNS 10-22-21For this week’s #FemFriday Nomiki Konst is joined by Dr. Jillian Jacklin to discuss the importance of de-stigmatizing migrants and the role the media can and does play in shaping negative representations of refugees. Dr. Jacklin is a Lecturer in Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She is a historian of the United States and places her work in a comparative and transnational context. Her research explores interactions between workers and businesses, as well as the government bureaucracies and corporate interests that inform these relationships.
Link to Dr. Jacklin at the University of...
2021-10-241h 38
The Nomiki Show#FemFriday Jillian Jacklin, Krystale Littlejohn, Kate Willett & Francesca Fiorentini | TNS 10-22-21
2021-10-241h 38
Feminist Coffee HourJust Get on the Pill by Dr. Krystale LittlejohnFeminist Coffee Hour: Tackling the political ouroboros from the feminist outer boroughs of New York City
2021-10-1452 minFlux Podcasts (Formerly Theory of Change)Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics with Dr. Krystale LittlejohnDr. Krystale Littlejohn discusses her book "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics," which argues that the burden placed on people who give birth is unequal, and that they are held accountable for preventing and resolving pregnancies in gender-constrained ways. We discuss how this is a reproductive justice issue, and that balancing the responsibility for pregnancy prevention would ease the emotional and domestic labor often placed primarily on women, and people who give birth.EPISODE REFERENCESJust Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive PoliticsHow All Po...
2021-09-2035 minThe Electorette PodcastJust Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics with Dr. Krystale LittlejohnDr. Krystale Littlejohn discusses her book "Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics," which argues that the burden placed on people who give birth is unequal, and that they are held accountable for preventing and resolving pregnancies in gender-constrained ways. We discuss how this is a reproductive justice issue, and that balancing the responsibility for pregnancy prevention would ease the emotional and domestic labor often placed primarily on women, and people who give birth.EPISODE REFERENCESJust Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive PoliticsHow All Po...
2021-09-2035 min
Two Broads Talking PoliticsKrystale LittlejohnKelly chats with Krystale Littlejohn, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon, about her upcoming book, *Just Get on the Pill: The Uneven Burden of Reproductive Politics.*
2021-08-1928 min
Scholars Strategy Network's No JargonPower to the Pharmacy?Birth control has helped many avoid unwanted pregnancies, but getting access to it can be a challenge. Professor Anu Manchikanti Gómez dives deep into a law that tried to change this by giving pharmacists the power to prescribe birth control. The only problem, is anyone using it? For More on this Topic: Read Gómez's brief, Tracking the Implementation of a California Law Allowing Pharmacists to Prescribe Birth Control Further Reading: Why Coverage of Prescription Contraception Matters for Men as Well as Women, Krystale Littlejohn, Occidental College How Intrauterine Devices and Contraceptive Implants He...
2018-02-2819 min