❤️‍🔥 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 !!!💖🙏

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⚡️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!

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⚡️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! ❤️‍🔥🤘⚡️

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⚡️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!💥💪🎸🤘⚡️

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⚡️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!!!❤️‍🔥🏳️‍⚧️🤘⚡️

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⚡️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!🤘❤️‍🔥⚡️

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⚡️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!❤️‍🔥⚡️

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❤️‍🔥 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. 😍❤️‍🔥🏳️‍⚧️⚡️

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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