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Oct 2 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Thank you.
1. Anxiety
2. Vaginal/vulvar dryness
3. Insomnia
#MenopauseAwarenessMonth
I'll be writing more about anxiety in my essay for Menopause Awareness Day later this month.

Meanwhile, I discuss it in my most recent essay on #menopause feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa… #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
And this one is about vaginal/vulvar dryness feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y… #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
The latter being the subject of this thread on shame #MenopauseAwarenessMonth

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Oct 3
This picture of schoolgirls in Iran.

Wow.

via @theasianfmnst via @1500tasvir #MahsaAmini #IranProtests2022 #IranRevolution Schoolgirls photographed fr...
Fuck theocracy everywhere.

Fuck fascism everywhere.

Fuck the patriarchy in every time zone and every universe.

Glory and power to the girls and women in Iran.
feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-… #MahsaAmini #IranProtests2022 #IranRevolution
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Oct 3
Glory and lower to girls and women fighting for freedom in Iran h/t @rerutled
Glory and power to girls and women fighting for freedom in Iran h/t @rerutled
Glory and power to the girls and the women in Iran who have seized the narrative and become object and subject. Women and girls are too often the afterthought of a revolution, rarely its reason for being. feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-… #Mahsa_Amini #IranProtests2022 #IranRevolution
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Oct 3
My #perimenopause has mostly had two settings
- beat someone up
- have a breakdown
Which is why I love the film Everything Everywhere All at Once so much: Evelyn beats many people up and has a breakdown of sorts. It is the perfect menopause allegory. #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
Everything Everywhere All at Once is the perfect menopause allegory film.

I don’t care if that’s not what The Daniels had in mind when they wrote and directed it. It’s art. It’s out there. And my menopause claims it! feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me… #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
And I don’t know if Michelle Yeoh has ever talked about her #menopause transition. I don’t care, I love her. She’s 4yrs older than me so I’m claiming her too. It is enough for me that Evelyn gets to beat people up AND have a breakdown of sorts because fuck, yes please!
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Oct 2
If you’re wondering where along my menopause journey I am, it is far enough that if I hear a voice in my head saying "Oh my god, you can't write about that!" I WILL IN FACT WRITE ABOUT THAT. To mark #MenopauseAwarenessMonth, some thoughts on shamelessness.
When you are shameless, you cannot be shamed.

Few things are surrounded by more shame and silence than a cis woman who is no longer young, her vagina which is no longer wet, and her sex drive which is not supposed to exist. feministgiant.com/p/moisturize-y… #MenopauseAwarenessMonth
If I thought I needed to be brave to write about my 2 abortions,it is next level courage to admit to being that cis woman who is no longer young, whose vagina is no longer wet & whose sex drive is not supposed to exist.

So here I am looking shame in the eye, daring it to test me
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Oct 1
October is #MenopauseAwarenessMonth.

I am “aware” of my menopause every day. To make up for the silence & taboo that ensures we know next to nothing about what happens to our bodies during this time, I'll be sharing some of my essays throughout the month.
feministgiant.com/p/essay-menopa… Four pictures of Mona arranged in a square. In each she is w
If you've ever menstruated, you can go through #menopause, a point in life that marks 12 months without a menstrual cycle.

The time leading up to menopause is known as #perimenopause, and once you’ve reached the point of 12 months w/out a menstrual cycle,you are post-menopausal
It is not just cis women who experience menopause.

Remember non-binary people, trans men, and other gender non-conforming /expansive groups who also experience menopause and do so under even greater levels of silence and taboo.

#MenopauseAwarenessMonth
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Sep 30
Menopause is the hardest thing that has ever happened to me. And it’s the best thing I’ve ever gone through.

Menopause is shit. Menopause is amazing. #menopause #perimenopause
What if #menopause is a dive into the self to explore the myths of what we're supposed to be at this stage of our life, what "success" is, what "milestones" to celebrate or regret. And to then wreck them.

A necessary wreckage.

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Is #menopause harder when you’ve ticked off milestones that have become reminders of how few of them lie ahead still; are they reminders, in other words, of how little time is left?
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