⚡️MENOPUNKS PODCAST ⚡️

Alicia J Rose

I’m filmmaker and musician Alicia J. Rose, and I want to empower women with the motherf$#@!% energy to start a hormonal revolution. By 2030, one billion women will be in menopause. One. Billion. Imagine if every man’s testosterone flatlined by 50 — you think the world would stay quiet about that? Welcome to menopause: complete hormonal upheaval. And perimenopause? She’s the chaotic, b*tchy, opening act that none of us can escape. The worst part? We’re turning to a medical system that keeps spreading the lie that hormone replacement therapy causes breast cancer — misinformation that’s been harming women’s health since 2002. That’s why I’m making MENOPUNKS — a feature documentary and podcast about menopause, perimenopause, quality of life and the creative process. It’s time to torch the misinformation, set the record straight about HRT, and give people the tools to advocate for their bodies, their energy, and their sanity. Because women can’t do good if they don’t feel good. Because gender-affirming care is a human right. And because it’s way past time for MENOPUNKS to to start a hormonal revolution. So join me as I pull back the curtain on the filmmaking journey, swap stories with incredible musicians, artists, and menopause experts, and expose one of the biggest medical cover-ups in modern history. ⚡️LFG⚡️ GET ON THE LIST: MENOPUNKS.COM

  1. 1d ago

    Episode 43: MANIFESTING A MIDLIFE RESURRECTION IN PERI/MENOPAUSE with MELISSA AUF DER MAUR

    ❤️‍🔥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

    Episode 43: MANIFESTING A MIDLIFE RESURRECTION IN PERI/MENOPAUSE with MELISSA AUF DER MAUR
  2. Aug 28

    Episode 42: BREAKING THROUGH THE HORMONAL MUSCULOSKELETAL CHAOS OF PERI/MENOPAUSE with Dr. Nancy Yen Shipley, MD

    ❤️‍🔥 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 MORE ABOUT FORM & FUNCTION ORTHOPEDICS ❤️‍🔥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 #orthopedicsurgeon #hormonesarehealthcare  #menopunks

    Episode 42: BREAKING THROUGH THE HORMONAL MUSCULOSKELETAL CHAOS OF PERI/MENOPAUSE with Dr. Nancy Yen Shipley, MD
  3. Aug 21

    Episode 41: SUPERCHARGING COMMUNITY CARE & HORMONAL ACTIVISM IN PERI/MENOPAUSE with Kim Stegeman of Rose City Rollers

    ⚡️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! MORE ABOUT KIM STEGEMAN READ THE MENOPAUSE UNICORN MORE ABOUT ROSE CITY ROLLERS ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS EMPOWERED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILAMMETTE !!! ❤️‍🔥 Make a telehealth appt for compassionate, informed gender affirming care today!⚡️ ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ ⚡️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 WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️ARE YOU A MENOPUNK? JOIN THE MOVEMENT: www.menopunks.com ⚡️ #menopause #perimenopause #rollerderby #hormonesarehealthcare  #menopunks

    Episode 41: SUPERCHARGING COMMUNITY CARE & HORMONAL ACTIVISM IN PERI/MENOPAUSE with Kim Stegeman of Rose City Rollers
  4. Aug 14

    Episode 40: ACTIVATING A FUTURE WITH RADICALLY INNOVATIVE MIDLIFE CARE with Sabrina Martucci Johnson of Daré Bioscience

    ⚡️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! ❤️‍🔥🤘⚡️ MORE ABOUT DARÉ BIOSCIENCE ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS EMPOWERED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE!!!❤️‍🔥 Make a telehealth appt for compassionate, informed midlife care today!⚡️ ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ ⚡️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 WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️ARE YOU A MENOPUNK? JOIN THE MOVEMENT: www.menopunks.com ⚡️LINK IN BIO⚡️ #menopause #perimenopause #womenshealth #hormonesarehealthcare  #menopunks

    Episode 40: ACTIVATING A FUTURE WITH RADICALLY INNOVATIVE MIDLIFE CARE with Sabrina Martucci Johnson of Daré Bioscience
  5. Aug 7

    Episode 39: WEAPONIZING PERI/MENOPAUSAL RAGE TO FIGHT SYSTEMIC DISEMPOWERMENT with LORI S. of ACID KING

    ⚡️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!💥💪🎸🤘⚡️ MORE ABOUT ACID KING ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS NOW EMPOWERED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE ❤️‍🔥 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 DESIGN: JEN SBRAGIA DISTRO: RUINOUS THEME: PARTY WITCH PRESS: ARLINGTON PR WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️ARE YOU A MENOPUNK? JOIN THE MOVEMENT: www.menopunks.com ⚡️ MENOPUNKS INSTAGRAM #menopause #perimenopause #femalemusician #acidking #hormonesarehealthcare  #menopunks

    Episode 39: WEAPONIZING PERI/MENOPAUSAL RAGE TO FIGHT SYSTEMIC DISEMPOWERMENT with LORI S. of ACID KING
  6. Jul 31

    Episode 38: SHREDDING THE STIGMATIZATION OF GENDER AFFIRMING CARE WITH MENOPUNKS OF COMEDY Mx. Dahlia Belle, Arlo Weierhauser and Brooks

    ⚡️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!!!❤️‍🔥🏳️‍⚧️🤘⚡️ MORE ABOUT MX. DAHLIA BELLE MORE ABOUT ARLO WEIERHAUSER MORE ABOUT BROOKS ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS NOW EMPOWERED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE ❤️‍🔥 Make a telehealth appt for compassionate, informed gender affirming care today! ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ ⚡️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 INTERGENERATIONAL ICONS ⚡️🎬🎤🧠 Alicia J. Rose Menopunks Documentary is currently in post-production, fundraising for a 2027 release! DESIGN: JEN SBRAGIA DISTRO: RUINOUS MEDIA PRESS: ARLINGTON PR WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️ARE YOU A MENOPUNK? JOIN THE MOVEMENT: www.menopunks.com ⚡️

    Episode 38: SHREDDING THE STIGMATIZATION OF GENDER AFFIRMING CARE WITH MENOPUNKS OF COMEDY Mx. Dahlia Belle, Arlo Weierhauser and Brooks
  7. Jul 24

    Episode 37: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SPARKING A HORMONAL REVOLUTION With Jennifer Weiss-Wolf

    ⚡️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!🤘❤️‍🔥⚡️ MORE ABOUT JENNIFER WEISS-WOLF ⚡️”When In Menopause” comes out this October - pre-order from Powells in Portland NOW or whatever independent bookstore you support. ⚡️ ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS NOW EMPOWERED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE BOOK YOUR TELEHEALTH IN OR & SW WA TODAY!!!❤️‍🔥⚡️ ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️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 ⚡️JOIN THE MENOPUNKS MOVEMENT: www.menopunks.com #menopause #perimenopause #hormonallyradicalized #hormonesarehealthcare  #menopunks

    Episode 37: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SPARKING A HORMONAL REVOLUTION With Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
  8. Jul 17

    Episode 36: BREAKING THROUGH THE HRT BREAST CANCER BARRIER with Dr. Corrine Menn OB/GYN & Menopause Specialist

    ⚡️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!❤️‍🔥⚡️ ❤️‍🔥MORE ABOUT DR. CORRINE MENN❤️‍🔥 ❤️‍🔥MENOPUNKS PODCAST IS NOW EMPOWERED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD COLUMBIA WILLAMETTE : MAKE A TELEHEALTH APPT FOR HRT!!!❤️‍🔥⚡️ ⚡️HORMONES ARE HEALTHCARE⚡️ WE SEE U❤️‍🔥WE HEAR U❤️‍🔥WE ARE U❤️‍🔥WE GOT U ⚡️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 ⚡️JOIN THE MENOPUNKS MOVEMENT ⚡️ #menopause #perimenopause #hormonallyradicalized #hormonesarehealthcare #menopunks

    Episode 36: BREAKING THROUGH THE HRT BREAST CANCER BARRIER with Dr. Corrine Menn OB/GYN & Menopause Specialist

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I’m filmmaker and musician Alicia J. Rose, and I want to empower women with the motherf$#@!% energy to start a hormonal revolution. By 2030, one billion women will be in menopause. One. Billion. Imagine if every man’s testosterone flatlined by 50 — you think the world would stay quiet about that? Welcome to menopause: complete hormonal upheaval. And perimenopause? She’s the chaotic, b*tchy, opening act that none of us can escape. The worst part? We’re turning to a medical system that keeps spreading the lie that hormone replacement therapy causes breast cancer — misinformation that’s been harming women’s health since 2002. That’s why I’m making MENOPUNKS — a feature documentary and podcast about menopause, perimenopause, quality of life and the creative process. It’s time to torch the misinformation, set the record straight about HRT, and give people the tools to advocate for their bodies, their energy, and their sanity. Because women can’t do good if they don’t feel good. Because gender-affirming care is a human right. And because it’s way past time for MENOPUNKS to to start a hormonal revolution. So join me as I pull back the curtain on the filmmaking journey, swap stories with incredible musicians, artists, and menopause experts, and expose one of the biggest medical cover-ups in modern history. ⚡️LFG⚡️ GET ON THE LIST: MENOPUNKS.COM

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