We need to find a new way

a new way to talk about menopause

Some profanity ahead… (oh, and this is going somewhere good ;)

Photo by Brendan Church on Unsplash

I was on a brilliant panel at the University of Birmingham Dubai this week, where we talked about a new way to talk about menopause, and menopause at work.

I felt like I was drinking ice cold water and standing in a cold breeze and getting a kind hug, all at the same time.

I’m going to write about that, and soon.

As a starting point for this discussion, at the center of the event, was an appearance by Dr Pilar Rojas Gaviria and Dr Camilla Quental, who along with Celine del Buccia published their first paper, Menopause and the Dialectic of Zest: Breaking the mold of organizational irrelevance in the journal Gender Work and Organisation.

I covered this paper here when it was released in May, falling in love with the way Pilar, Camilla and Celine approached the entire topic and just generally losing all sense of objectivity on the matter. Because I am a woman going through this and how we talk …