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Anna H's avatar

Chuckling to myself unselfconsciously on the tube surrounded by furrowed browed, glowing skinned millennials

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Kat River's avatar

Wow loved having that read. Thank you!

It reminds me how

The collective general society don’t like “real” sex/sexuality - they like youthful, performative sex.

I remember when my mum began menopause.

Her moods were everywhere and it was really hard for her as she had spent so long birthing babies and being in that season of her life where she was so valued for her ability to raise 7 kids, so valued for “looking good” after so many pregnancies etc.

Her body began to change and my youngest sister must have still been in primary school.

She found it confronting, growing older.

There was so much shame for her emotional outbursts, and grief from the changes.

Fear of being forgotten in society.

I remember telling her- just like maiden to mother,

Woman to “crone” is a rite of passage that has to happen through menopause. It’s important. An initiation of sorts. If she can learn to embrace it, she will sit more in her power and knowing as a woman. If she runs from it, it will only feel hard and she’ll never connect to the potential of who she is.

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