⚡️MENOPUNKS PODCAST ⚡️

⚡️This week musician, mother and magical human Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlin joins Alicia to talk about her pandemic/perimenopause/post-partum triple whammy, how she focuses on keeping creative to fight thru hormonal chaos, the radical power of community care, how every human being deserves the right feel beautiful in their body, how empathy is actually a fcking super power and how touring and making mus...

⚡️In this weeks episode @ajrhq was delighted to talk with legendary Latinx activist & OG punk dreamboat Alice Bag !! We got into her bananas amazing 50 year musical career, her anger about being wrongly ripped off HRT post hysterectomy🤬, how punk powered self advocacy hacks can lead to hormonal revolution, how women of color can activate community to challenge medical rac🖕sm, how smashing s...

⚡️On this weeks pod we chat with non-binary singer/composer/musician Shara Nova aka My Brightest Diamond about overcoming imposter syndrome, channeling peri/meno rage into creativity and action, using emboldened self-advocacy to turn the “whisper” network into a SCREAM , engaging in activism for self confidence, tools for hacking your way through medical peri/meno ignorance, and how we can all em...

⚡️This week Alicia gets down to biz with Canadian board certified menopause specialist Amanda Otterman, RN! We dig into busting through all the dangerous misinformation in the online “menoverse”, how we are forced to fight medical misogyny with self advocacy, why the midlife care desert created by the WHI misinformation is GLOBAL, how GLP-1s can work with/against HRT, how confronting medical raci...

⚡️Non-Binary peri/meno coach / author of GenderQueer Menopause Lasara Firefox Allen and trans composer/sound engineer Ed Varga join us this week to get into how trans/non-binary folk are total ✨MAGIC✨, how ripping the roof off the evil politicized attacks on Gender Affirming Care exposes right wing weakness, how the misogynist bias rampant in HRT treatment must end to secure a future of equity...

⚡️EPISODE 16: PUNK PERIMENOPAUSE ON THE STRIPPER POLE + THE MENOPUNKS BILL OF RIGHTS with Liv Osthus aka Viva Las Vegas Drops Friday!⚡️ ⚡️👯‍♀️ Stripper, author, activist and former candidate for mayor of Portland OR(!!) Liv Osthus aka Viva Las Vegas  joins the pod to go deep into the power of informed self advocacy, building Menopunk community, fine tuning HRT for better quality of life and ho...

⚡️This week we chat with the fabulous Dr. Andrea Matsumura - Board certified Sleep Physician & women’s midlife health specialist AND participant in the Menopunks documentary about all things peri/meno and sleep!  We dive into how better sleep = better quality of life, how sleep training ourselves is more effective than any hack, supplement or drug, how the patriarchal medical establishment ne...

⚡️The wildly delightful and defiant JODY BLEYLE of NW Homocore legends Team Dresch / Hazel and her fabulous spouse, licensed somatic counselor NINA LANDEY join Alicia to update us on their transformative (recent!!) experiences using HRT to reverse osteopenia and curb anxiety, what Jody’s journey has been like as a “Menopunks Lab Rat” aka primary film participant, how Nina navigated a BRCA diagnos...

⚡️Badass drummer Sara Lund joins Alicia and breast cancer survivor/menopause specialist Nikki Kuehl NP to share how she balanced breast cancer treatment with the reunion of her band - 90's indie rock legends Unwound, and to get to the bottom of what’s really behind the despair inducing brick wall of "NO HRT" for breast cancer survivors.   Sara reveals how she refused to let her 2024 surprise diag...

⚡️ARE YOU READY FOR THE BIG M?💥⚡️ ⚡️Electrifying new peri/meno essay anthology THE BIG M edited/curated by the brilliant Lidia Yuknavitch hits the universe this week and features a f💥cking fabulous host of intersectional writers divulging tales of adventurous midlife mayhem, euphoric period freedom, post-cancer sexual discovery, insomnia fueled slug warfare, menopause defense weaponization, t...

⚡️ Brilliant certified menopause specialist Dr. Aoife O'Sullivan MD joins Alicia to gleefully rip up an insert and get to the bottom of the bullsh*t surrounding the infamous misinformation ridden HRT Black Box Warnings that have plagued peri/meno care since the falsified results of the WHI Study f🙌cked us all in 2002. NO - Vaginal Estrogen does NOT cause probable dementia, NO - systemic estradio...

⚡️PREPARE YOURSELF FOR A MENOPUNK LEGEND!⚡️Genius comedian and punk AF unfiltered voice of GENX, Margaret Cho pops by to discuss the importance of Gender Affirming Care for All, how HRT transformed her mental and physical health, how America must break free from the abuse of this idiotic p*edo administration and so much more!⚡️It was an absolute dream to have her join the conversation - thank y...

⚡️Brilliant artist/author/activist Lidia Yuknavitch joins the Menopunks conversation to celebrate the wide release of Kristen Stewart’s new film adaptation of her earthshaking novel “The Chronology of Water" and dish the dirt . Lidia and Alicia discuss fighting genocidal violence against women, reclaiming our blood & power post-meno, the audacious rebel yell of midlife, how community building...

In this episode Shannon Funchess, BIPOC Menopunk and fierce artist/activist behind brilliant darkwave synth icons   Light Asylum goes deep into myth busting the mysteries and misinformation that shroud menopause with host Alicia J. Rose. Their wide ranging chat goes from building community to counter the peri/menopause education desert, to confronting systemic medical neglect of BIPOCA women/AFAB,...

⚡️DOES THE PATRIARCHY FEAR THE UNF*CKABLE CRONE? 🧙🏻🖕⚡️ On this weeks episode Host Alicia & Andi Zeisler - Bitch Media founder and Senior Culture Writer at Salon.com - have a rollicking conversation about adult onset ADHD and the rollercoaster of being a neurodivergent peri/menopausal woman in 2025. They dive into how the patriarchy’s fear of women aging into their power has been fueling c...

⚡️In this episode Alicia, Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney and menopause specialist Nikki Kuehl NP deep dive into myth busting the dangerous lies about HRT and women’s health. They get into the importance of having the energy and creativity to maintain quality of life, using our platforms to amplify activism through pop culture, and how Corin’s early 90’s Riot Grrrl origins helped her carve a femin...

⚡️In this episode, Alicia chats with dear friend and early 90's punk legend Gilly Ann Hanner of Calamity Jane. They dive into everything from peri/menopausal chaos to standing up for the rights of the trans community, to that time Calamity Jane opened for Nirvana in Argentina and wound up imploding as a band immediately after. They reminisce about being punk firestarters in the early 90's, the no...

⚡️In this fun and fierce episode Alicia gets into it with triple positive breast cancer survior/HRT advocate Nikki Kuehl NP , busting through the nightmare of hormonal health and the patriarchal trash heap that’s shaped women’s medical narratives for decades. Nikki reveals her own story—surviving breast cancer, crash-landing into menopause, and realizing just how little real information women - a...

⚡️In this episode pals Alicia J. Rose , Rachel Blumberg (Califone/Field Drums/Arch Cape) and Jen Sbragia (The Softies/All Girl Summer Fun Band) take an unfiltered deep dive into their creative quality of life before and after HRT and how they're inspired to spark change through a hormonal revolution. Three lifelong creative polymaths fully optimized with zero f🤘cks left to give get real about ou...

⚡️In this episode host Alicia J. Rose dives into a wildly informative conversation with the ever delightful Allison Wolfe of Riot GRRRL legends Bratmobile, plus a special pop-in by menopause specialist and HRT/meno/cancer advocate Nikki Kuehl NP. We get into the origins of Riot Grrrl and Bratmobile, doing the splits at 50, Allison’s own HRT journey - including a live testosterone sampling - and h...

⚡️On this inaugural episode of Menopunks Podcast filmmaker/musician Alicia J. Rose teams up with menopause specialist Dr. Aoife O’Sullivan to rip the stigmatized label off peri/menopause with radical insight and huge laughs. Dr. O'Sullivan shares how her own hormonal crash turned her from a by-the-book doc into a passionate women’s health advocate. Together, Alicia and Dr. O call out the BS of me...

I’m filmmaker and musician Alicia J. Rose, and I want to empower women with the energy to start a revolution. By 2030, one billion women will be in menopause. One. Billion. Imagine if every man’s testosterone tanked by 50 — you think the world would let that slide? Welcome to menopause: complete hormonal castration. And perimenopause? She’s the chaotic, sh*tty opening act that none of us can escap...