⚡️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⚡️

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⚡️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

⚡️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

⚡️On this weeks episode we get to chat with the Queen of our dreams Jane Wiedlin, innovative guitarist 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

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⚡️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