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⚡️MENOPUNKS PODCAST ⚡️

Alicia J Rose

I’m filmmaker and musician Alicia J. Rose, and I want to empower women with the motherf$#@!% energy to start a hormonal revolution. By 2030, one billion women will be in menopause. One. Billion. Imagine if every man’s testosterone flatlined by 50 — you think the world would stay quiet about that? Welcome to menopause: complete hormonal upheaval. And perimenopause? She’s the chaotic, b*tchy, opening act that none of us can escape. The worst part? We’re turning to a medical system that keeps spreading the lie that hormone replacement therapy causes breast cancer — misinformation that’s been harming women’s health since 2002.

That’s why I’m making MENOPUNKS — a feature documentary and podcast about menopause, perimenopause, quality of life and the creative process. It’s time to torch the misinformation, set the record straight about HRT, and give people the tools to advocate for their bodies, their energy, and their sanity.

Because women can’t do good if they don’t feel good.

Because gender-affirming care is a human right.

And because it’s way past time for MENOPUNKS to to start a hormonal revolution.

So join me as I pull back the curtain on the filmmaking journey, swap stories with incredible musicians, artists, and menopause experts, and expose one of the biggest medical cover-ups in modern history.

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  • S1 · E46
    Friday · 1 hr 17 min

    Episode 46: GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF MAN-O-PAUSE with Mr. Showbiz Murray Hill

    ⚡️On this weeks pod we had the honor and delight of hearing from one of the funniest and most entertaining humans in the universe - MR. SHOWBIZ himself - actor & comedian Murray Hill!! Murray deep dives into his memoir, *Showbiz: My Life as a Middle-Aged Man*, including his beginnings in drag king performance and trans identity, addiction, abuse, survival, and reinvention. He gets into overcoming rejection and bigotry in the biz, his brilliant stint as Fred on the wonderfully ground breaking show Somebody Somewhere with goddess genius Bridget Everett, the absolute importance of queer representation on screen and in comedy clubs, his overnight descent into rage, brain fog and the inability to cope in dealing with peri/meno as a middle age man, how imagining a more caring, equitable future where people feel like they belong, health care is accessible, and marginalized communities help drive real change can change everything AND LOTS MORE!💥 ❤️‍🔥It was beyond a thrill to get under the hood of life as a middle aged man with Murray! His hilarious book “SHOWBIZ” comes out 10/6 PRE-ORDER NOW! 📕❤️‍🔥 MORE ABOUT MURRAY HILL ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS EMPOWERED BY ⁠⁠⁠⁠PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILAMETTE⁠⁠⁠⁠ !!!❤️‍🔥 Make a ⁠⁠⁠⁠telehealth⁠⁠⁠⁠ appt for compassionate, informed gender affirming care today!⚡️ ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING PODCAST AND FEATURE DOCUMENTARY IN PRODUCTION ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤🧠 Alicia J. Rose ⚡️ COMING 2027 ⚡️ DESIGN: ⁠⁠⁠⁠JEN SBRAGIA⁠⁠⁠⁠ DISTRO: ⁠⁠⁠⁠RUINOUS⁠⁠⁠⁠ PR: ⁠⁠⁠⁠ARLINGTON⁠⁠⁠⁠ THEME: ⁠⁠⁠⁠PARTY WITCH "FALL IN LINE"⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ 🤘ARE YOU A MENOPUNK? 🤘 ⚡️⁠⁠⁠⁠JOIN THE MOVEMENT⁠⁠⁠⁠⚡️ #menopause #perimenopause #transrightsarehumanrights #hormonesarehealthcare #menopunks

  • S1 · E45
    September 18 · 1 hr 25 min

    Episode 45: BURNING THE MENOPAUSE PLAYBOOK TO START A HORMONAL RIOT w/ THEO KOGAN & SYDNEY SILVER of LUNACHICKS

    ⚡️This week we laughcry our ever loving buns off with two absolute PUNK ICONS Theo Kogan and Sydney Silver of Lunachicks! 🎉❤️‍🔥⚡️ We get into the wild pre-teen origin story of the Lunachicks, their roller coaster of a ride through the music biz as an all-female band, their own rollicking peri/meno tales, the role of hormones in creativity, the intersection of reproductive health and artistic expression, overcoming the maligned history of HRT and how to myth bust misinformation, what to do about the annoying and dangerous hormone shortages and access issues, how doctors need to step up their midlife educations and we get jiggy envisioning a future of empowered healthcare and activism!⚡️ ❤️‍🔥WE FCKNG LOOOVE THESE BADASS BABES! THE LUNACHICKS RULE!! ❤️‍🔥 MORE ABOUT LUNACHICKS ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS EMPOWERED BY ⁠⁠⁠PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILAMETTE⁠⁠⁠ !!!❤️‍🔥 Make a ⁠⁠⁠telehealth⁠⁠⁠ appt for compassionate, informed gender affirming care today!⚡️ ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤🧠 Alicia J. Rose ⚡️ COMING 2027 ⚡️ DESIGN: ⁠⁠⁠JEN SBRAGIA⁠⁠⁠ DISTRO: ⁠⁠⁠RUINOUS⁠⁠⁠ PR: ⁠⁠⁠ARLINGTON⁠⁠⁠ THEME: ⁠⁠⁠PARTY WITCH "FALL IN LINE"⁠⁠⁠ ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ 🤘ARE YOU A MENOPUNK? 🤘 ⚡️⁠⁠⁠JOIN THE MOVEMENT⁠⁠⁠⚡️ #menopause #perimenopause #lunachicks #hormonesarehealthcare #menopunks

  • S1 · E44
    September 11 · 1 hr 16 min

    Episode 44: SMASHING PATRIARCHAL AGEISM WITH RADICAL SELF LOVE W/ HEIDI CLEMENTS & CONSTANCE ZIMMER

    ⚡️On this week’s pod we get to bask in the delightful chemistry of besties Heidi Clements & Constance Zimmer - badass feminist icons and co-hosts of fellow meno-zoned pod Talk 50 To Me! ⚡️ ❤️‍🔥You probably know the fab & fashionable Heidi from her punk AF viral pro-aging poetic hot takes and Constance from her decades of brilliant acting and directing including a recent Emmy nom for her supporting role in the juicy limited series “Love Story”!! We get into meno activism with their stigma shattering Hollywood focused podcast, what symptoms forced them to take menopause seriously, why talking openly about hormones and peri/meno matters and how they each came to access HRT. We also connect the midlife health crisis (and patch shortages) to systemic misogyny, dangerous healthcare misinformation, the visibility and honesty of older women in Hollywood as well as why menopause needed a Menopunk rebrand to help GENX (and beyond) spark a hormonal revolution! 🤘💥 It was such a blast getting realer than real with these incredible women! Thank you for Menopunking the fck out with us in this harrowing time of misogyny fueled attacks on bodily autonomy, reproductive freedom and f*scist a-hole BS. It was just what we needed. 🥰🤘🔥 MORE ABOUT HEIDI MORE ABOUT CONSTANCE TALK FIFTY TO ME ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS EMPOWERED BY ⁠⁠PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILAMETTE⁠⁠ !!!❤️‍🔥 Make a ⁠⁠telehealth⁠⁠ appt for compassionate, informed gender affirming care today!⚡️ ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤🧠 Alicia J. Rose ⚡️ COMING 2027 ⚡️ DESIGN: ⁠⁠JEN SBRAGIA⁠⁠ DISTRO: ⁠⁠RUINOUS⁠⁠ PR: ⁠⁠ARLINGTON⁠⁠ THEME: ⁠⁠PARTY WITCH "FALL IN LINE"⁠⁠ ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ 🤘ARE YOU A MENOPUNK? 🤘 ⚡️⁠⁠JOIN THE MOVEMENT⁠⁠⚡️ #menopause #perimenopause #constancezimmer #heidiclements #talkfiftytome #hormonesarehealthcare #menopunks

  • S1 · E43
    September 4 · 1 hr 21 min

    Episode 43: MANIFESTING A MIDLIFE RESURRECTION IN PERI/MENOPAUSE with MELISSA AUF DER MAUR

    ❤️‍🔥This week we channel a brighter future with legendary 90’s bass babe, badass photographer, writer and all around mystical human Melissa Auf der Maur !! ❤️‍🔥 ⚡️A truly delightful multidisciplinary artist and deeply ebullient spirit Melissa brings us into how her radical feminist Canadian upbringing inspired her wild bass adventures in 90’s rock with Hole & The Smashing Pumpkins and why she intuitively brought a camera with her everywhere she went, the power of channelling the eternal feminine into modern life, learning to always recognize where women are in the patriarchal timeline and how various waves of feminism change how women live, how creativity coming full circle in midlife can fuel the soul, her experience with perimenopause hitting at the same time as her daughter’s ascent into puberty, how to maximize intergenerational empowerment through art and music, writing and photography as a protection ritual and so much more!❤️‍🔥 💪We just happened to talk on THE DAY SHE SLAPPED ON HER FIRST ESTROGEN PATCH! NOTHING is a coincidence with this cosmically tapped in mage. Thank you for sharing your incredible story with MenoPunks XMADMX!🥰💪 ⚡️ Pick up her gorgeous new book “My 90’s Rock Photographs" out 9/8 and be sure to tear thru her brilliant and breezy 90’s rock memoir “Even The Good Girls Will Cry” available wherever you buy books!⚡️ MORE ABOUT XMADMX ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS EMPOWERED BY ⁠PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILAMETTE⁠ !!!❤️‍🔥 Make a ⁠telehealth⁠ appt for compassionate, informed gender affirming care today!⚡️ ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤🧠 Alicia J. Rose ⚡️ COMING 2027 ⚡️ DESIGN: ⁠JEN SBRAGIA⁠ DISTRO: ⁠RUINOUS⁠ PR: ⁠ARLINGTON⁠ THEME: ⁠PARTY WITCH "FALL IN LINE"⁠ ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ 🤘ARE YOU A MENOPUNK? 🤘 ⚡️⁠JOIN THE MOVEMENT⁠⚡️ #menopause #perimenopause #melissaaufdermaur #hormonesarehealthcare #menopunks

  • S1 · E42
    August 28 · 49 min

    Episode 42: BREAKING THROUGH THE HORMONAL MUSCULOSKELETAL CHAOS OF PERI/MENOPAUSE with Dr. Nancy Yen Shipley, MD

    ❤️‍🔥 On this weeks pod we go deep with renowned Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Nancy Yen Shipley, M.D.!! ❤️‍🔥 🦴Together Nancy and Alicia get into why estrogen loss affects bones, joints, ligaments, and recovery time, the benefits of joint preservation versus joint replacement in midlife, how her own early perimenopause symptoms changed her orthopedic practice, why understanding Musculoskeletal Syndrome of Menopause as a new clinical framework is key, why frozen shoulder and joint pain should trigger hormone questions, the lack of menopause education in medical training and how public awareness is shifting pressure onto clinicians, her reactions to the FDA black box warning removal on hormone therapy, regenerative medicine and PRP therapy for lowering inflammation, how weight training leads to stronger midlife bones, Dr. Shipley’s own harrowing story of having a cardiac event in surgery and so much more!🦴 ⚡️Nancy is also an expert medical participant in Menopunks documentary 😍🎬- and just an absolutely delightful badass! It was a gift spending time with her to figure out what the hell is going on with our bodies and bones during this wild time of midlife! THANK YOU Nancy !!!💖🙏 MORE ABOUT NANCY YEN SHIPLEY, MD MORE ABOUT FORM & FUNCTION ORTHOPEDICS ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS EMPOWERED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILAMETTE !!!❤️‍🔥 Make a telehealth appt for compassionate, informed gender affirming care today!⚡️ ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤🧠 Alicia J. Rose ⚡️ COMING 2027 ⚡️ DESIGN: JEN SBRAGIA DISTRO: RUINOUS PR: ARLINGTON THEME: PARTY WITCH "FALL IN LINE" ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ 🤘ARE YOU A MENOPUNK? 🤘 ⚡️JOIN THE MOVEMENT⚡️ #menopause #perimenopause #orthopedicsurgeon #hormonesarehealthcare #menopunks

  • S1 · E41
    August 21 · 1 hr 15 min

    Episode 41: SUPERCHARGING COMMUNITY CARE & HORMONAL ACTIVISM IN PERI/MENOPAUSE with Kim Stegeman of Rose City Rollers

    ⚡️Episode 41: SUPERCHARGING COMMUNITY CARE & HORMONAL ACTIVISM IN PERI/MENOPAUSE with Kim Stegeman ⚡️ ⚡️This week on the pod we hip check the patriarchy and get a fierce peri/meno pep talk from Kim Stegeman aka Rocketmean, founder of Rose City Rollers and author of The Menopause Unicorn!"🦄💥 Kim takes us into her mis/adventures with perimenopause, hormone replacement therapy, and the radical power she discovered speaking openly about midlife health with her community. ❤️‍🔥🤘 We get into the long-term damage caused by the misinformation around HRT and the fallout from the Women’s Health Initiative study, the social and political side of menopause care, the need for advocacy, community, access, and better education, how menopause symptoms can shift over time and require dosage adjustments, the importance of finding a menopause specialist or educated provider, the next level MAGIC of Vaginal estrogen, how diet, protein, fiber, and alcohol reduction can lessen symptoms, how roller derby culture mirrors menopause activism, why Gen X is gonna rip the conversation around HRT wide open, how ANDROPAUSE may be very real for men, testosterone should be made more available to ALL humans and SO MUCH MORE! MORE ABOUT KIM STEGEMAN READ THE MENOPAUSE UNICORN MORE ABOUT ROSE CITY ROLLERS ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS EMPOWERED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILAMMETTE !!! ❤️‍🔥 Make a telehealth appt for compassionate, informed gender affirming care today!⚡️ ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤🧠 Alicia J. Rose WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️ARE YOU A MENOPUNK? JOIN THE MOVEMENT: www.menopunks.com ⚡️ #menopause #perimenopause #rollerderby #hormonesarehealthcare #menopunks

  • S1 · E40
    August 14 · 1 hr 9 min

    Episode 40: ACTIVATING A FUTURE WITH RADICALLY INNOVATIVE MIDLIFE CARE with Sabrina Martucci Johnson of Daré Bioscience

    ⚡️This week we talk to Sabrina Martucci Johnson, the brilliant CEO & founder of women’s health bioscience innovators Daré Bioscience. 🧬 We wanted to dive into making a future we all want to live in so we got into how Daré is working to close the gender gap in medical research, what incredible new HRT & drug delivery systems for women are coming down the pike (even Female Viagra!!), how hormonal health impacts brain, cardiovascular, and bone health, how intentional misinterpretation of women’s health data has has had dire consequences on society for over two decades, the importance of accessible hormone therapy for ALL humans, how revolutionizing Women’s Health will add TRILLIONS to the economy, how Gen X can use SCIENCE to burn down the patriarchy and SO MUCH MORE!⚡️ ⚡️With our basic rights under extreme attack and so much negative BS flying at us daily, hearing from a badass like Sabrina who is doing on the ground work get us into a BETTER FUTURE FOR WOMEN’S HEALTH was a perfect salve to the soul!! BRING IT!! LFG! ❤️‍🔥🤘⚡️ MORE ABOUT DARÉ BIOSCIENCE ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS EMPOWERED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE!!!❤️‍🔥 Make a telehealth appt for compassionate, informed midlife care today!⚡️ ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤🧠 Alicia J. Rose WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️ARE YOU A MENOPUNK? JOIN THE MOVEMENT: www.menopunks.com ⚡️LINK IN BIO⚡️ #menopause #perimenopause #womenshealth #hormonesarehealthcare #menopunks

  • S1 · E39
    August 7 · 1 hr 2 min

    Episode 39: WEAPONIZING PERI/MENOPAUSAL RAGE TO FIGHT SYSTEMIC DISEMPOWERMENT with LORI S. of ACID KING

    ⚡️On this weeks pod we talk to legendary guitarist LORI S. of stoner rock rippers Acid King!! Besides bringing her singular style of power shredding to the doom/stoner metal scene Lori is a fierce advocate for hormonal access and reproductive justice for all! 💪 We got into Lori's inspiring journey as a female musician in the male dominated metal scene, how Suzanne Somer's unexpectedly helped her wild ride thru peri/meno and fight to find relief thru bioidentical HRT, the harrowing history and massive potential benefits to society/politics of shattering misinformation, the importance of maintaining creative practice through all stages of life, the crucial intersection between music and activism, how weaponizing peri/menopausal rage to fight through the nightmare misogyny of the medical establishment is key to a better future for every human and SO MUCH MORE!⚡️ ⚡️Lori is a defining voice in the music scene, it was a joy to hear her thoughts on how we rip the face off BS patriarchal control and spread MENOPUNK LIBERATION FAR AND WIDE! LISTEN UP!💥💪🎸🤘⚡️ MORE ABOUT ACID KING ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS NOW EMPOWERED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE ❤️‍🔥 Make a telehealth appt for compassionate, informed gender affirming care today! ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤🧠 Alicia J. Rose DESIGN: JEN SBRAGIA DISTRO: RUINOUS THEME: PARTY WITCH PRESS: ARLINGTON PR WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️ARE YOU A MENOPUNK? JOIN THE MOVEMENT: www.menopunks.com ⚡️ MENOPUNKS INSTAGRAM #menopause #perimenopause #femalemusician #acidking #hormonesarehealthcare #menopunks

  • S1 · E38
    July 31 · 1 hr 22 min

    Episode 38: SHREDDING THE STIGMATIZATION OF GENDER AFFIRMING CARE WITH MENOPUNKS OF COMEDY Mx. Dahlia Belle, Arlo Weierhauser and Brooks

    ⚡️In this week’s episode, we get to laugh our collective stress off with MENOPUNKS OF COMEDY Mx. Dahlia Belle, Arlo Weierhauser and Brooks fresh off their smash hit sets at MENOPUNKAPALOOZA ‘26! This trio of brilliant, queer, gender expansive comedic minds share their hormonal experiences with fresh POV and next level hilarity! Mx. Dahlia Belle brings us into how she found true freedom by transitioning in front of audiences onstage at comedy clubs, Brooks shares their wild adventures trying to get testosterone in a broken & bigoted medical system and Arlo finally connects the dots that their early 40's melange of miseries might *actually* be perimenopause 🤣🤘+ SO MUCH MORE. It was a delight and honor to talk with these trans/non-binary/masc lesbian gems about how the evil BS war on gender affirming care is truly an attack on EVERY SINGLE PERSON‘S BODILY AUTONOMY AND AGENCY. Thank you for being the amazing human beings that you are and for making us laugh-cry all the way to the end of this podcast. Trans rights are human rights that we must ALL fight for if we want to live in a free and just society!! MENOPUNKS OF COMEDY FTW!!!❤️‍🔥🏳️‍⚧️🤘⚡️ MORE ABOUT MX. DAHLIA BELLE MORE ABOUT ARLO WEIERHAUSER MORE ABOUT BROOKS ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS NOW EMPOWERED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE ❤️‍🔥 Make a telehealth appt for compassionate, informed gender affirming care today! ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND INTERGENERATIONAL ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤🧠 Alicia J. Rose Menopunks Documentary is currently in post-production, fundraising for a 2027 release! DESIGN: JEN SBRAGIA DISTRO: RUINOUS MEDIA PRESS: ARLINGTON PR WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️ARE YOU A MENOPUNK? JOIN THE MOVEMENT: www.menopunks.com ⚡️

  • S1 · E37
    July 24 · 1 hr 18 min

    Episode 37: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SPARKING A HORMONAL REVOLUTION With Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

    ⚡️In this weeks episode we go under the hood of what it takes to spark a hormonal revolution with Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, lawyer, activist and author of upcoming book “When In Menopause.” Weiss-Wolf's brilliant piece in THE NATION, “What We Can Learn From the Current Menopause Moment” caught our attention with its on point zoom out of the women’s peri/meno health crisis we are in and actionable steps to change it RIGHT FCKNG NOW! Weiss-Wolf, a leading advocate that helped establish equitable menstrual policy in America shares how hitting menopause turned her attention to the tragic state of midlife care, how we can fight fire with fire in this encroaching fasc⚡️st hellscape by putting our midlife skill sets to purposeful use, how to individually & collectively force systemic change with RELENTLESS DEMAND, how understanding the wild history of HRT is key to liberating us all from patriarchal control, how we are RIPE for a worldwide matriarchal takeover and how GENX has a unique opportunity to change the course of history if we play it right! ❤️‍🔥⚡️😱 ❤️‍🔥Thanks for going ALL THE WAY THERE with us Jennifer - together as MENOPUNKS we will flip this fasc⚡️st b⚡️tch!🤘❤️‍🔥⚡️ MORE ABOUT JENNIFER WEISS-WOLF ⚡️”When In Menopause” comes out this October - pre-order from Powells in Portland NOW or whatever independent bookstore you support. ⚡️ ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS NOW EMPOWERED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE BOOK YOUR TELEHEALTH IN OR & SW WA TODAY!!!❤️‍🔥⚡️ ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤🧠 Alicia J. Rose ⚡️JOIN THE MENOPUNKS MOVEMENT: www.menopunks.com #menopause #perimenopause #hormonallyradicalized #hormonesarehealthcare #menopunks

  • S1 · E36
    July 17 · 1 hr 27 min

    Episode 36: BREAKING THROUGH THE HRT BREAST CANCER BARRIER with Dr. Corrine Menn OB/GYN & Menopause Specialist

    ⚡️On this weeks episode we have a wildly informative chat with renowned NYC OB/GYN & Certified Menopause Specialist Dr. Corrine Menn!⚡️ ❤️‍🔥Breast cancer survivor, hormone advocate, and leading doc in her field, Dr. Menn dishes deep on how her own experience with BC during medical school left her hormonally radicalized forever, her groundbreaking approach to hormonal care post BC, why GENX is pivotal to changing the face of peri/meno treatment and access, how she is working to flip the cruel script of early surgical (and chemo) menopause, how sharing our stories holds the power of systemic change, how testosterone is an HRT cornerstone for women/AFAB that must be de-embargoed for women/AFAB ASAP, her hardcore passion for achieving hormonal & reproductive justice for ALL and so much more! 💪❤️‍🔥 ⚡️DR. MENN is the mentor of our own participant in the Menopunks film Dr. Aoife O'Sullivan so IT WAS A THRILL to get to ask all our burning Q’s and hear her truly illuminating thoughts - ENJOY!❤️‍🔥⚡️ ❤️‍🔥MORE ABOUT DR. CORRINE MENN❤️‍🔥 ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS NOW EMPOWERED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE : MAKE A TELEHEALTH APPT FOR HRT!!!❤️‍🔥⚡️ ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤🧠 Alicia J. Rose ⚡️JOIN THE MENOPUNKS MOVEMENT ⚡️ #menopause #perimenopause #hormonallyradicalized #hormonesarehealthcare #menopunks

  • S1 · E35
    July 10 · 1 hr 11 min

    Episode 35: ACTIVATING THE RADICAL POWER OF QUEER AUTHENTICITY with JD Samson

    ❤️‍🔥 The absolutely wonderful musician/educator/activist JD Samson of Le Tigre and MEN joins Menopunks this week to get deep into the their storied life of defying binary expectations, ditching self imposed bodily shame, breaking through feminization fear of HRT, using intuition to guide creative process and personal style, accessing HRT in Perimenopause to curb symptoms early, how to cultivate peri/meno community care, how much better the world will be once the queer matriarchy rises and a boatload of peri/meno hacks from Alicia !! We loved talking to you JD! Thank you for sharing so beautifully and vulnerably. 😍❤️‍🔥🏳️‍⚧️⚡️ MORE ABOUT JD SAMSON ❤️‍🔥Menopunks Podcast is empowered by Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette ❤️‍🔥⚡️ WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️🤘HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE🤘⚡️ ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED ICONS ⚡️🎬 ⚡️JOIN THE MENOPUNKS MOVEMENT FOR HORMONAL ACCESS & REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: www.menopunks.com ⚡️ #menopause #perimenopause #transmasc #hormonesarehealthcare #menopunks #transrightsarehumanrights CHAPTERS: 00:31 Introduction to Menopunks Podcast 00:37 Introduction to JD Samson and their Journey 06:03 Teaching and Learning from Students 09:06 The Impact of Social Media on Creativity 11:15 The Story Behind Joining La Tigre 13:53 Navigating Gender Identity in the Music Scene 16:18 The Sexualization and Visibility of Gender Expression 19:12 The Importance of Vulnerability in Art 21:47 Reproductive Health and Hormonal Experiences 24:33 Facing Perimenopause and Hormonal Changes 27:24 Navigating Hormone Therapy Choices 28:36 Understanding Hormone Impact on Health 29:27 The Journey Through Menopause 30:21 Debunking Myths Around Hormone Therapy 31:51 The Testosterone Conversation 33:14 The Importance of Hormonal Balance 34:25 The Role of Hormones in Health 35:22 Inclusion in the Hormonal Conversation 36:44 Vaginal Estrogen and Its Benefits 38:29 Misinformation and Hormonal Health 39:45 Generational Perspectives on Hormone Use 41:48 The Importance of Preventative Healthcare 44:09 Recognizing Symptoms of Hormonal Changes 45:53 Optimizing Hormonal Health 46:44 The Importance of Gender Affirming Care 49:24 Hormonal Health and Longevity 54:20 The Historical Context of Hormone Therapy 57:16 The Current State of Hormone Access 01:03:03 Empowerment Through Hormonal Understanding 01:05:54 The Vision for a Hormone-Informed Future 01:10:56 Introduction to Menopunks and Its Movement 01:10:57 Exploring the Cultural Impact of Menopause

  • S1 · E34
    July 3 · 1 hr 23 min

    Episode 34: DEMANDING HORMONAL ACCESS & REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE FOR ALL WITH Moji Alawode-El & Lizz Winstead

    ⚡️On this weeks pod we laugh-cry and deep dive into plotting a misandrist uprising with Moji Alawode-El & Lizz Winstead the founders of Abortion Access Front & Co-Hosts of Feminist Buzzkills Podcast! ⚡️ Two of our absolute favorite voices on the frontlines fighting for our rights, Moji & Lizz join Alicia to share their brilliant activist tactics to counter abortion bans, the importance of sharing our peri/meno and abortion stories, how they fight misogyny with genius comedy every week, the universally beneficial power of disrupting gender bias in healthcare, how the attack on our trans community is an attack on everyone, envisioning a future with ENSURED ACCESS TO HRT & REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE for all and so much more! ⚡️ ⚡️Felt so good to laugh so hard during times as FCKED as these! Thx for joining us Moji & Lizz!! Yr the best! ⚡️ MORE ABOUT ABORTION ACCESS FRONT FEMINIST BUZZKILLS PODCAST ⁠MOJI ON IG⁠ ⁠LIZZ ON IG⁠ 💥Listen to Feminist Buzzkills Pod and share your medication abortion stories with Abortion Access Front post-haste! They are doing the BEST WORK!💥 ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS NOW EMPOWERED BY Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette! Visit PPCW.ORG to make an appointment with a peri/meno trained clinician today. ❤️‍🔥⚡️ WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY CULTURE BEARERS ⚡️🎬 🎤🤘🏼 Alicia J. Rose ⚡️GET ON THE LIST: www.menopunks.com ⚡️ CHAPTERS 00:31 Introduction to Menopunks Podcast 00:37 Introduction to the Metapunks Podcast and Guests 03:32 The Role of Humor in Activism 06:27 Overview of Abortion Access Front (AAF) 09:19 Feminist Buzzkills Podcast: A Platform for Reproductive Rights 12:06 The State of Reproductive Rights and Activism 14:49 The Need for Accountability and Change 17:24 Hormonal Justice and Women's Health 19:25 The Hormone Gap: A Hidden Crisis 21:27 Empowerment Through Hormones: Breaking the Stigma 23:54 The Trust Deficit: Women of Color and Medical Innovation 26:51 The Importance of Sharing Stories: Building Community 29:27 The Fight for Women's Health: Advocacy and Action 34:57 Mobilizing for Change: The Menopunkapalooza Initiative 39:43 The Power of Storytelling 40:29 Navigating Menopause: A Generational Gap 42:06 Feminism and the Evolution of Women's Health 45:05 The Rise of Fourth Wave Feminism 46:44 Backlash and the Trad Wife Phenomenon 49:06 Cultural Extraction and Collective Trauma 52:53 The Role of Art in Social Change 01:00:05 The Hormonal Conversation: Women's Needs and Desires 01:04:39 Andropause and Hormonal Imbalance: A Shared Experience 01:08:25 Gender Affirming Care: A Human Right 01:12:08 Imagining a Better Future: A Matriarchal Vision 01:19:48 Empowerment Through Hormones: Personal Experiences and Insights 01:23:26 Introduction to Menopunks and Its Movement 01:23:27 Exploring the Cultural Impact of Menopause #menopause #perimenopause #menopunks #hormonesarehealthcare

  • S1 · E33
    June 26 · 1 hr 2 min

    Episode 33: DOUBLING DOWN ON THE DEFIANT POWER OF MENOPAUSE with Peaches

    ⚡️🌈❤️‍🔥On this weeks pod we talk to the absolutely brilliant and hilarious Peaches Nisker about next leveling your power during/after peri/menopause! We dive into her wild and surprising ride into early meno at 40, her bumpy journey seeking hormonal relief, her beautiful commitment to maximizing Queer joy and liberation, how to lean into midlife creativity with serious sass and vigor, how to unite community on the road to revolution, how to inspire inter-generational change in dark times and SO. MUCH. MORE. It was a bucket list dream come true to ask all our burning Q’s, get a chance to know the fabulous musical empath behind the magical performances she delivers night after night and turn her on to vaginal estrogen!! Thank you for sharing yourself with us cause MENOPUNKS are here for it!!🤘😍🤘⚡️ MORE ABOUT PEACHES 💥CATCH PEACHES ON TOUR THIS FALL IN THE STATES💥 ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS NOW EMPOWERED BY Planned Parenthood Columbia Wiillamette !!! Make a TELEHEALTH appt for midlife care today!❤️‍🔥⚡️ WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY CULTURE BEARERS ⚡️🎬 🎤 ALICIA J. ROSE DESIGN: JEN SBRAGIA DISTRIBUTION: RUINOUS MEDIA ⚡️GET ON THE LIST: www.menopunks.com ⚡️ CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction and Welcome 02:34 Celebration and Connection Through Music 05:36 Intergenerational Joy and Community 08:51 Navigating Menopause and Hormone Therapy 12:24 The Impact of Hormones on Creativity 15:47 Normalizing Conversations Around Menopause 19:52 Exploring Hormonal Health and Well-being 24:06 The Impact of Hormone Replacement Therapy 27:09 Personal Experiences with Hormonal Treatments 29:21 The Need for Menopause Education 33:41 The Controversy of Testosterone 36:03 Gender Affirming Care and Its Challenges 39:00 The Intersection of Politics and Gender Identity 43:02 Censorship and Artistic Expression in Germany 44:36 The Fight for Rights and Community 45:30 Hormone Therapy and Women's Health 48:20 Empowerment Through Access to Hormones 50:22 Matriarchal Rise and Societal Change 52:08 Finding Joy and Pleasure in Life 56:01 Peaches' New Music and Tour Plans 01:01:57 Introduction to Menopunk and Its Movement 01:01:58 Exploring the Cultural Impact of Menopause #menopause #perimenopause #hormonesarehealthcare

  • June 19 · 1 hr 20 min

    Episode 32: TRANSFORMING MIDLIFE CARE TO EMPOWER A HORMONAL REVOLUTION with Dr. Sara Kennedy & Dr. Kate Shaw of Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette

    ⚡️WOOHOO IT’S MENOPUNKAPALOOZA MONTH!🎸🥁💥 ❤️‍🔥 PLANNED PARENTHOOD is now an empowering sponsor of MENOPUNKAPALOOZA - 2 days of Menopunk powered concerts and PERI/MENO RESOURCE FAIR June 26/27 IN Portland OR❤️‍🔥 ⁠⁠⁠⚡️TICKETS FOR MENOPUNKAPALOOZA ⚡️⁠⁠⁠ ⚡️On this weeks pod we talk with the brilliant leaders at the helm of PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE - Dr Kate Shaw OB/GYN CMOO & Dr. Sara Kennedy OB/GYN CEO about the ground breaking work PPCW is doing to usher in a hormonal revolution! ⚡️ ⚡️We got all the deets about their bold double down on midlife care - including easily accessible telehealth, how they retrained ALL their clinicians to be up to date peri/meno educated, how reframing hormones as basic preventative healthcare is imperative to quality of life, how empowerment thru hormone health can be transformative for women and all those that support them, how compassionate evidence based patient care drives PPCW's focus and how we MUST supercharge the message that PPCW & PLANNED PARENTHOOD HEALTH CENTERS PROVIDE MENOPAUSE AND PERIMENOPAUSE CARE INCLUDING PRESCRIBING HRT!💥⚡️ ⁠MORE ABOUT MIDLIFE SERVICES AT PPCW⁠ ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS NOW EMPOWERED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE !!!❤️‍🔥⚡️ We are honored to amplify PPCW's FANTASTIC midlife care services. Once riot grrrls and upstart punks, now rockstar crones ready to riot, we are going to shout from the rooftops that PPCW is here to help Menopunks get the care they need, wherever they need it - RIGHT NOW. 💥HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE! Perimenopause and menopause are natural transitions-but that doesn’t mean you have to manage the symptoms on your own. Whether you’re experiencing hot flashes, mood changes, sleep disruption, or changes in your sexual health, PPCW providers offer personalized, evidence-based care to help you feel like yourself again. From symptom management to long-term wellness, PPCW is here to support you at every stage of the transition. In-person or via telehealth, expert care is within reach when you need it. Visit ppcw.org to make an appointment today! 💥 WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬 ⚡️GET ON THE LIST: www.menopunks.com ⚡️ CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction to Planned Parenthood and the Podcast 03:52 The Importance of Midlife Care 06:45 Understanding Menopause and Perimenopause 09:34 The Impact of Education on Women's Health 12:20 Generational Shifts in Women's Health Advocacy 14:58 The Role of Hormones in Women's Health 17:38 The Women's Health Initiative and Its Consequences 20:03 Current Challenges in Women's Health 23:05 Access to Care and Telehealth Solutions 25:46 The Future of Women's Health Care 30:24 Normalizing Hormone Therapy Discussions 33:02 The Importance of Being Heard in Healthcare 36:01 Expanding Midlife Care Across the Nation 39:37 Accessing Care at Planned Parenthood 41:38 Driving Change Through Patient Advocacy 45:58 Understanding Perimenopause and Hormone Therapy 51:27 The Impact of Recent FDA Decisions on Hormone Therapy 55:12 Transforming Midlife Care 56:30 Hormones as Preventative Healthcare 58:07 Empowerment Through Hormonal Health 01:00:31 The Future of Women's Health 01:03:07 The Fight for Health Equity 01:04:55 Menopunks and Planned Parenthood Collaboration 01:06:33 Accessing Hormonal Care 01:12:58 Finding Care with PPCW 01:20:39 Introduction to Menopunk and Its Movement 01:20:40 Exploring the Cultural Impact of Menopause

  • June 12 · 1 hr 21 min

    Episode 31: BEATING DOWN THE PATRIARCHAL SHAME SPIRAL IN PERI/MENOPAUSE with Teresa Esguerra of Prism Bitch

    ⚡️WOOHOO IT’S MENOPUNKAPALOOZA MONTH!🎸🥁💥 ❤️‍🔥 CATCH Teresa's band PRISM BITCH FRIDAY 6/26 at the Mission Theater in Portland with NIGHT BRUNCH AND DARKSWOON 🎸⚡️ ⁠⚡️TICKETS FOR MENOPUNKAPALOOZA ⚡️⁠ ⚡️On this weeks episode, we talk to Teresa Esguerra - incredible drummer of Prism Bitch & Built to Spill ! 😍❤️‍🔥 We deep dive into Teresa’s kismetic musical history, how to escape the patriarchal shame spiral of peri/menopause, how to listen to your body and know what the hell it’s trying to tell you, how to overcome misplaced fear of hormones, how to inform yourself about peri/menopause when your community doesn’t, how to tap into surprising new creative territory in midlife, how hysterectomies should be a last resort not an “easy fix” to women’s pain, how GENX rockers are destined to lead the way to a hormonal revolution and so much more! ❤️‍🔥 🌈Teresa thank u for sharing and laughing your buns off with us! Yr the fcking coolest!! 🥁😍🌈 ❤️‍🔥MORE ABOUT TERESA❤️‍🔥 ❤️‍🔥MORE ABOUT PRISM BITCH❤️‍🔥 ⚡️TICKETS FOR MENOPUNKAPALOOZA ⚡️ WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS EMPOWERED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE🤘❤️‍🔥 ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤 Alicia J. Rose ⚡️GET ON THE LIST: www.menopunks.com ⚡️ SUBSCRIBE⚡️AMPLIFY⚡️SUPPORT DESIGN: JEN SBRAGIA DISTRO: RUINOUS MEDIA CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction to Menopunks Podcast 03:52 Musical Journey and Touring Life 06:23 Navigating Menopause and Health Challenges 09:04 Understanding Hysterectomy and Its Implications 11:38 Hormonal Health and Healthcare Inequities 13:48 Personal Experiences with Menopause and Music 16:10 The Impact of Hormones on Health and Well-being 18:03 Conversations on Women's Health and Advocacy 22:30 The Callousness of Women's Healthcare 25:42 Hormones and Aging: A Gendered Perspective 26:55 The Impact of COVID on Women's Health 27:49 Generational Wins in Hormone Therapy 29:32 The Fight for Women's Health Rights 34:40 The Echo Chamber of Misinformation 36:23 Empowerment Through Music and Identity 43:06 The Struggle for Acceptance of Science 43:43 Navigating Hormone Therapy Options 45:38 Understanding Hormone Therapy and Self-Titration 47:21 Breaking the Stigma Around Hormone Therapy 48:49 The Burden of Suffering and Societal Expectations 52:07 The Importance of Access to Hormone Therapy 54:22 Reclaiming Hormone Therapy from Weaponization 55:47 The Cultural and Economic Costs of Hormone Access 01:01:30 Human Affirming Care Beyond Gender 01:02:30 Reimagining the Later Years 01:04:19 The Joy of Drumming and Hormonal Health 01:05:25 Patriarchy and Societal Expectations 01:07:01 Voices for Change 01:07:49 The Hormonal Access Crisis 01:10:00 Envisioning a Matriarchal Future 01:13:02 Collective Success and Community Care 01:15:14 Empowerment Through Knowledge and Action 01:20:58 Introduction to Menopunk and Its Movement 01:20:59 Exploring the Cultural Impact of Menopause

  • June 5 · 1 hr 19 min

    Episode 30: TURNING THE WHISPER NETWORK INTO A RAGING PUNK SCREAM FOR HORMONAL JUSTICE with Gilly Ann Hanner, Lisa Koenig and Mandy Morgan of Calamity Jane

    ⚡️WOOHOO IT’S MENOPUNKAPALOOZA MONTH!❤️‍🔥🎸🎤💥🌈⚡️ ⚡️On this weeks pod we talk to MENOPUNKAPALOOZA headliners Calamity Jane - Gilly Ann Hanner, Lisa Koenig & new addition Mandy Morgan!!! We get the unreal deets of how an infamous 1992 opening gig for NIRVANA led to collective PTSD, how musical creativity can become a spiritual mainline, how to flip debilitating trauma into profound strength, how accessing HRT may have supercharged their path to reinvention, why collaborating on music is more healing than ever in peri/menopause, how to find and raise your voice for yourself and your community, how to channel middle aged punk rage into a hormonal revolution that may save us ALL and SO MUCH MORE! ⚡️ ❤️‍🔥WE ARE THRILLED TO BE HOSTING THE 35 YEAR REUNION OF THIS ICONIC TRIO AT MENOPUNKAPALOOZA! We need Calamity Jane energy now more than ever to power up for the 🤬 fight for hormonal justice ahead. LFG🤘🎸❤️‍🔥 ⚡️DO U HAVE YOUR TIX YET? ⚡️ MENOPUNKAPALOOZA KICKOFF Friday JUNE 26 at the Mission Theater with Prism Bitch, Night Brunch and Darkswoon + premiere of new Menopunks Teaser MENOPUNKAPALOOZA MAINSTAGE W/ PERI/MENO RESOURCE FAIR June 27 at the Crystal Ballroom with Calamity Jane, Berzerk, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Gabalanch, Puerta Negra, Party Witch, Grizzly + DJ Allison Wolfe of Bratmobile and Menopunks of Comedy: MX. Dahlia Belle, Arlo Weierhauser, Brooks and the Ménage Áh Twáts. 🤘SEE YOU IN PORTLAND!🤘 ⚡️❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS PROUDLY EMPOWERED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE - GET CARE NOW!❤️‍🔥⚡️ WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤 @ajrhq ⚡️GET ON THE LIST: www.menopunks.com ⚡️ SUBSCRIBE⚡️AMPLIFY⚡️SUPPORT DESIGN: JEN SBRAGIA DISTRO: RUINOUS MEDIA 00:00 Introduction to Calamity Jane Reunion 02:43 The Origins of Calamity Jane 05:15 Revisiting the Past: What Happened to Calamity Jane? 09:06 Recording the Album: Martha Jane Cannery 11:56 The Ill-Fated Tour with Nirvana 19:45 The Impact of Courtney Love and the LA Scene 20:09 The Legendary Argentina Show 21:46 The Aftermath of Trauma 25:23 Reunion and Reflection 29:11 Creative Evolution in Your 50s 35:06 Rediscovering the Band's Unique Sound 38:47 Navigating Menopause and Creativity 41:41 Navigating Hormonal Changes 46:45 The Impact of Hormones on Creativity 53:21 Understanding Menopause and Hormonal Deficiency 01:00:38 Creativity Amidst Hormonal Challenges 01:00:43 Embracing Rage and Empowerment 01:02:51 Processing Emotions Through Music 01:03:49 Hormones and Personal Identity 01:04:34 The Importance of Self-Care 01:06:23 Understanding Hormone Therapy 01:10:18 Anticipation for Menapunkapalooza 01:12:15 The Spirituality of Music 01:15:18 Community and Connection at Menapunkapalooza 01:18:18 Introduction to Menopunk and Its Movement 01:18:19 Exploring the Cultural Impact of Menopause

  • May 29 · 1 hr 17 min

    Episode 29: EMPOWERING YOUR PARTNER AND COMMUNITY WITH INFORMATION & ACTION w/ PORTIA SABIN & SLIM MOON

    ⚡️On this “couples” episode we dive into the relationship dynamics of peri/menopause with pals Portia Sabin and Slim Moon! Long time punk musicians, music industry legends, life partners and parents of a teenager in red state Tennessee 😱, we chat with them about channeling deep empathy, embracing couples therapy to relearn how to listen and communicate, how to recognize peri/menopause sneak attacks from the outside, Portia’s sweaty and confounding pandemic rollercoaster into peri💦🥵, the importance of adjusting HRT levels as we age, the psychic challenges of navigating conservative politics as punk GenX parents, our wild 90’s indie punk history connections and so much more! 💥⚡️ ⚡️So fun to get into it with these OG sweeties, welcome to the MenoPunks fam Portia & Slim!⚡️ MORE ABOUT PORTIA SABIN MORE ABOUT SLIM MOON WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬 ⁠Alicia J. Rose⁠ DESIGN: ⁠JEN SBRAGIA⁠ DISTRO: ⁠RUINOUS MEDIA⁠ THEME: ⁠PARTY WITCH⁠ ⚡️GET ON THE LIST: www.menopunks.com ⚡️ SUBSCRIBE⚡️AMPLIFY⚡️SUPPORT CHAPTERS: 00:00 Introduction to the Guests and Their Backgrounds 02:40 The Evolution of Their Relationship and Shared History 05:14 Navigating Perimenopause: Personal Experiences and Challenges 07:54 The Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health and Hormonal Changes 10:47 Understanding Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and Its Benefits 13:43 The Role of Misinformation in Women's Health 16:14 The Intersection of Hormones and Mental Health 18:53 Communication Strategies in Relationships During Stressful Times 21:44 Final Thoughts on Hormonal Health and Well-being 25:21 The Impact of Hormones on Well-being 27:27 Generational Perspectives on Hormonal Health 31:00 The Role of Misinformation in Women's Health 36:27 Historical Context of Hormone Therapy 41:52 Education and Politics in Tennessee 47:03 Racism and Disenfranchisement in Modern Politics 51:52 The Blatancy of Racism and Misogyny 53:43 The Stress on Democracy and the Need for Reform 56:20 The Rise of Matriarchy and Community 59:16 The Hormonal Revolution and Women's Empowerment 01:02:46 Generational Perspectives on Change 01:06:20 Imagining a Better Future 01:10:07 The Backlash Against Progress 01:15:07 The Call for a Revolution 01:17:26 Introduction to Menopunk and Its Movement 01:17:26 Exploring the Cultural Impact of Menopause

  • May 22 · 1 hr 14 min

    Episode 28: SHATTERING HRT AGEISM TO POWERUP IN PERI/MENOPAUSE with PHRANC

    ⚡️In this rollicking episode we sit down with legendary Jewish Lesbian folksinger & visual artist PHRANC for a wildly charming and deeply motivating chat. We dive into PHRANC’s early punk history, their bananas 80’s/90’s ascent to musical/cultural icon with the help of allies like Morrissey, the radical power of community care, how to fight fire with fire in the attack on Trans-rights, how misinformation about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and ageism continues to ROB their generation of quality of life saving care, how storytelling is essential for LGBTQIA+ survival, their artistic evolution into sculpture and how seeing “youngins” Team Dresch in the early 90’s may have saved their musical life and so much more!⚡️ ❤️‍🔥PHRANC is an absolute GEM of a human we are so jazzed to share this wonderful and hilarious convo with you!❤️‍🔥 MORE ABOUT PHRANC WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬 Alicia J. Rose DESIGN: JEN SBRAGIA DISTRO: RUINOUS MEDIA THEME: PARTY WITCH ⚡️GET ON THE LIST: www.menopunks.com ⚡️ SUBSCRIBE⚡️AMPLIFY⚡️SUPPORT 00:00 Introduction to Phranc and their Art 02:26 The Journey of Identity and Community 04:53 Phranc's Musical Evolution and Punk Roots 07:15 Navigating the Music Scene and Embracing Queerness 10:02 The Impact of Community on Artistic Expression 12:21 Reflections on the Past and the Future of Queer Music 15:33 Navigating the Punk Scene and Its Challenges 17:41 The Rise of Phranc: From Local to National Recognition 22:33 The Impact of Personal Loss and Artistic Evolution 31:56 Re-emergence as Hot August Phranc and Community Support 33:03 Community and Connection in Art 36:40 The Impact of Team Dresch on Phranc's Music 40:20 Navigating Menopause and Healthcare Challenges 45:35 The Politics of Hormone Therapy and Women's Health 52:25 Empowerment and the Future of Women's Health 54:23 The Visibility of Aging and Hormonal Health 55:15 Taking Control of Our Health 56:24 Radicalization Through Knowledge 57:41 The Power of Storytelling 59:07 The Menopunks Movement 01:00:29 Gender Affirming Care for All 01:01:59 Envisioning a Future of Hormonal Justice 01:04:14 Unity in the Fight for Rights 01:06:14 The Importance of Representation 01:08:25 Imagining a World with Access to Care 01:14:14 Introduction to Menopunks and Its Movement 01:14:14 Exploring the Cultural Impact of Menopause

  • May 15 · 54 min

    Episode 27: SMASHING SYSTEMIC MEDICAL RACISM & SILENCE IN PERI/MENOPAUSE with Cardiologist Dr. Jayne Morgan

    ⚡️This week we chat with noted cardiologist and fabulous women’s midlife care advocate @drjaynemorgan about the intersection of heart health and peri/menopause! A total rockstar in her field, Dr. Morgan shares how her own harrowing perimenopause journey changed her understanding of how to treat women in midlife, what’s fact and fiction about HRT and heart health, the massive impact of systemic medical racism & misogyny on hormone research and treatment, the crucial role of social media in advocating for change, how to solve the mystery of heart palpitations and vertigo and so much more!⚡️ ❤️‍🔥Dr. Morgan is a straight up spitfire and we are so grateful for the wildly informative chat! THANK U FOR YOUR TIME YOU RULE!❤️‍🔥 MORE ABOUT DR. JAYNE MORGAN WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U ❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️MENOPUNKS IS A MISINFORMATION SHATTERING FEATURE DOCUMENTARY AND PODCAST ABOUT PERI/MENOPAUSE AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF DEFIANT GENX MUSICIANS, TRAILBLAZING DOCTORS AND OPINIONATED CELEBRITY CULTURE BEARERS ⚡️🎬 @ajrhq ⚡️GET ON THE LIST: www.menopunks.com ⚡️ SUBSCRIBE⚡️AMPLIFY⚡️SUPPORT #menopause #perimenopause #hormonallyradicalized #hormonereplacementtherapy #hearthealth

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