Chaos and Control is a documentary-style limited series exploring the story of birth control in America. It takes a critical look at the history of both gynecology and the birth control movement, the development of the oral contraceptive pill, and the social and cultural systems that have shaped the current conversation around birth control.

It starts by exploring the systems and beliefs that gave birth to much of our current conversation about birth control. The early episodes trace the dark history of the birth control movement in America, how contraception was used as a tool of population control both domestically and abroad, the legacy of several of the dangerous long-acting contraceptives like Norplant and Depo-Provera, the various women's health movements both past and present that have influenced contraception, the criminalization of contraception and abortion — and how this all has impacted different groups of women, often according to race. The later episodes are focused on ideas of informed consent, gendered compulsory birth control, the importance of destigmatizing periods, the problem with choice politics, FemTech and menstrual surveillance, and body literacy as revolutionary praxis in post-Roe America.

It’s rooted in the framework of reproductive justice, and explores the complex history and the women who lived through it, as well as interviews with young women about their experience of the pill, and interviews with experts including historians, sociologists, doulas, and body literacy educators.