Milli Hill
freelance journalist; founder, Positive Birth Movement; author, Positive Birth Book

Milli Hill is a writer, feminist and freelance journalist with a passion for reframing the narrative around women’s bodies. She is the author of the bestselling Positive Birth Book (2017), Give Birth like a Feminist (2019) and My Period (2021, for preteen girls). From 2012 to 2021 she founded and ran the Positive Birth Movement, a global network of antenatal discussion groups aimed at improving birth and giving women better access to support and information.

As a journalist since 2013, she has written for many publications including Telegraph, Mail, Guardian, Independent, ipaper and Mother&Baby, and has appeared on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, BBC 5 Live, talkradio, LBC and many leading podcasts.

In recent times, Milli has become interested in ‘cancel culture’ and had her own experiences of this phenomenon. As a writer about female biology, she is curious about the current misinformation about sex and gender and the implications of shifts in word definitions for women’s rights. She writes regularly on her Substack about this, including a section entitled ‘The Word is Woman’, where she documents examples of the erasure of women from language. Her fourth non-fiction book will be published in 2024.

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