⚡️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🤘❤️‍🔥⚡️

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"TMI: Memoir of a Go-Go” drops 11/10 - PRE-ORDER NOW!

⚡️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? 🤘

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⚡️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🗳️🤘

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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

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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 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

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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 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

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⚡️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. 🥰🤘🔥

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TALK FIFTY TO ME

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⚡️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

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⚡️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