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⚡️In Ep 50 Congresswoman Maxine Dexter joins us to discuss peri/menopause, hormone therapy, and why access to HRT matters. Drawing on her experience as a physician, policymaker, and patient, Dexter reflects on her perimenopause symptoms and the effect of treatment, what’s behind lingering fears around HRT, medication access, and the need for evidence-based care. She also connects menopause care with reproductive rights and gender-affirming care, arguing that medical decisions belong with patients and clinicians, and she lays out ways people can advocate for better access with universal healthcare for all!⚡️ 🗳️IT WAS A JOY TALKING TO THIS BRILLIANT CONGRESSWOMAN - LETS VOTE MORE OF THEM INTO OFFICE THIS MIDTERM ELECTION!✊🗳️ MORE ABOUT CONGRESSWOMAN DEXTER ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ ❤️‍🔥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 & OPINIONATED INTERGENERATIONAL CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤🧠 Alicia J. Rose ⚡️ DOC COMING 2027 ⚡️ DESIGN: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠JEN SBRAGIA⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ DISTRO: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RUINOUS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ PR: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ARLINGTON⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ THEME: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PARTY WITCH "FALL IN LINE"⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🤘ARE YOU A MENOPUNK? 🤘 ⚡️⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠JOIN THE MOVEMENT⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⚡️ #menopause #perimenopause #hormonallyradicalized #femalepoliticians  #menopunks

⚡️In this episode we dive into Oregon State Representative Annessa Hartman’s journey through public service, stage 3 cervical cancer, and sudden medically induced menopause. She reflects on representing her community as an Indigenous woman, navigating party politics, and advocating for more responsive healthcare. She also shares the physical and emotional impact of treatment and menopause, highlighting the need for earlier screening, better support, and more open conversations about women’s health. ⚡️ 🗳️IT WAS A JOY TALKING TO THIS WONDERFUL WOMAN LETS VOTE MORE OF THEM INTO OFFICE THIS MIDTERM ELECTION!✊🗳️ MORE ABOUT REP ANNESSA HARTMAN ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ ❤️‍🔥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 & OPINIONATED INTERGENERATIONAL CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤🧠 Alicia J. Rose ⚡️ DOC COMING 2027 ⚡️ DESIGN: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠JEN SBRAGIA⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ DISTRO: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RUINOUS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ PR: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ARLINGTON⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ THEME: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PARTY WITCH "FALL IN LINE"⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🤘ARE YOU A MENOPUNK? 🤘 ⚡️⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠JOIN THE MOVEMENT⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⚡️ #menopause #perimenopause #menopunkthevote #femalepoliticians  #menopunks

⚡️On this weeks episode we get to chat with the Queen of our dreams Jane Wiedlin, innovative guitarist and songwriter of The Go-Go's and author of upcoming tell-all "TMI" and ask all of the burning questions! The bucket list is real folks!😍 We talk about the band’s origin in the LA punk scene, how they broke through with pop-forward songs, and why their all-female success was so groundbreaking. We also get deep on creativity, sexism, bipolar disorder, menopause, hormone therapy, and Jane’s new memoir and protest album. We dive into Jane’s path from glitter rock to Hollywood punk, the realities of touring 300 days a year, and the legacy of being the first all-female band to write, play, and hit number one on the charts. We also break into a frank, practical conversation about midlife health, quality of life, and what it means to fight for yourself as a woman in this wild sh*tshow of a world! ⚡️ ❤️‍🔥WE LYSM JANE THANK U FOR INSPIRING MENOPUNKS EVERYWHERE SINCE FOREVER!  YOUR DGAF VIBES ARE JUST WHAT WE NEED TO FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS RN💥ROCK ON🤘❤️‍🔥⚡️ MORE ABOUT JANE WIEDLIN MORE ABOUT THE GO-GO'S "TMI: Memoir of a Go-Go” drops 11/10 - PRE-ORDER NOW! ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ ❤️‍🔥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 & OPINIONATED INTERGENERATIONAL CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤🧠 Alicia J. Rose ⚡️ DOC COMING 2027 ⚡️ DESIGN: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠JEN SBRAGIA⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ DISTRO: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RUINOUS⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ PR: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ARLINGTON⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ THEME: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PARTY WITCH "FALL IN LINE"⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🤘ARE YOU A MENOPUNK? 🤘 ⚡️⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠JOIN THE MOVEMENT⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⚡️ #menopause #perimenopause #hormonallyradicalized #femalemusicians  #menopunks

⚡️This week we get the absolute gift of talking with brilliant entertainer/activist and the ACLU'S first-ever Artist Ambassador for Transgender Justice MISS PEPPERMINT ! ⚡️ ⚡️Pepp & Alicia get into the overlap between trans rights, peri/menopause care, reproductive access, and bodily autonomy. Pepp makes the case that attacks on trans people are really attacks on privacy, medical freedom, and the right to make decisions about your own body. We dive into how corporations shape healthcare and politics, why misinformation around hormones has harmed cis women for decades, and why a real coalition across women, trans people, immigrants, and other marginalized groups is the only path forward to a world where hormonal care is free and fair for ALL BODIES. ⚡️ ❤️‍🔥THANK U PEPP for lighting a fire under the ass of the world and reminding us that ALL OUR VOICES AND VOTES MATTER!! 🤬🗳️❤️‍🔥 🤘🗳️TOGETHER WE MUST MENOPUNK THE FCKNG VOTE and TAKE CONTROL BACK OF THIS HOT MESS! LFGGGG🗳️🤘 MORE ABOUT MISS PEPPERMINT PEPP ON IG ❤️‍🔥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 & OPINIONATED INTERGENERATIONAL CELEBRITY ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤🧠 Alicia J. Rose ⚡️ DOC 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 #hormonallyradicalized #transrightsarehumanrights  #menopunks

⚡️In this week's In this weeks episode Alicia and Jibz Cameron AKA Dynasty Handbag connect the dots between creativity, survival, bipolar disorder and the ways women and AFAB people have been under-treated for decades. We get into her feral childhood origin story and fierce memoir “Hell in a Handbag”, her brilliantly strange alchemy of performance and autobiography, how trauma, queerness, and art shaped her persona, and how hormone access, mental health, and midlife care is a deeply political issue. We also dive into hacks for self-advocacy, the exhausting estrogen patch shortage 🤬, how sharing stories with community can be life saving, overcoming struggles with body image, aging, neurodivergence, masking, the need for rest AND SO MUCH MORE!  ⚡️ Thank you for sharing your truly inspiring and bananas ride with us Jibz! You are a true gem of gems!💎 READ “HELL IN A HANDBAG” out now on Dopamine Books. MORE ABOUT DYNASTY HANDBAG 📸 ⁠⁠Alison Michael Orenstein⁠ ❤️‍🔥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 #bipolarmenopause #hormonesarehealthcare  #menopunks

⚡️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

⚡️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

⚡️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

❤️‍🔥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

❤️‍🔥 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

⚡️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

⚡️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

⚡️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

⚡️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 ⚡️

⚡️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