Is Menopause Real?

I made my first podcast, and it's about menopause.

How social algorithms shape the way it's experienced.
How gender nonconforming people might approach it.
How biopower controlled knowledge about it.

For this episode on menopause, I interviewed:

• My best friend Charlie about how they’re starting to think about menopause as someone who’s trans non-binary. As millennials start to experience perimenopause over the next few years, we’re going to see an explosion of trans non-binary menopause experiences—which, I argue (with Judith Butler, of course!), is a sort of hyperreality that can be quite liberatory.
• My friend Kim, who went through perimenopause during the pandemic and still can’t stop seeing Facebook/Instagram ads for products that can “fix” it. Gen X women like Kim are some of the first to experience menopause within the neoliberal, algorithmic swamp we’re in, and it was super fun talking to her about her experiences.
• My mother, who’s considered a “superflasher”—someone whose hot flashes never ended!—about the pitfalls of experiencing menopause without access to social media narratives. I get into some deep French-Canadian, biopolitical, intergenerational trauma with this one.