Franka Frei

In the organizer's words:

We fly into space, transplant organs and have long been living in a thoroughly digitalized world. But when it comes to contraception, we seem to be stuck in the 1960s: little has changed since the pill was approved for the market, contraception is a "woman's issue", including the physical, emotional and financial side effects. Studies on male contraception have been discontinued due to side effects that are literally part of everyday life for hundreds of millions of women. Are we as a society any further along?

More and more men want to relieve their partners of the side effects of conventional contraceptive methods. Since 2018, a movement of young people has been growing louder, calling for reform. Men from France have been looking for ways to use contraception on their own bodies - and have found suitable methods.

"Overdue" is a progressive and witty zeitgeist text that places the topic of contraception in a wider context of power politics, combines gender politics with anti-racist and ecological discourses and sheds light on gaps in medical research.

Franka Frei, born in Cologne in 1995 and raised in Salzburg, Austria, is an author and journalist with a special focus on reproductive rights and health. In 2020, she published her popular science non-fiction book "Periode ist politisch. A manifesto against the menstruation taboo'. This was followed in March 2021 by her debut novel "Toad Sex" and in 2023 by the popular science non-fiction book "Overdue. Why contraception is also a men's issue". In addition to working as a lecturer in Germany and abroad, Franka Frei is a freelance journalist for radio, print and TV media. Her articles appear on Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Funk, Der Spiegel, WDR Cosmo, Deutsche Welle, Frau TV and Neues Deutschland, among others. Since 2023, Franka Frei has also worked as a political consultant for NGOs, state institutions and social enterprises.

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