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TASA Thursday: Reimagining menopause: mobilising radical imaginaries across social, creative and cli

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Join us at 12:30pm (AEST) on 15th May 2025 for this month's TASA Thursday Session: 'Reimagining menopause: mobilising radical imaginaries across social, creative and clinical domains'

While many areas of reproductive health have been radically transformed by social and medical progress, menopause has remained stubbornly attached to conventional scripts and social norms about gender, sexuality, and the life course. Supported by the TASA Gary Bouma Memorial Workshop grant, colleagues at UNSW Sydney held a ‘Reimagining Menopause’ workshop in May 2024, designed to address a significant gap in knowledge of non-normative experiences of menopause.

This workshop explored how narratives of menopause can be made more inclusive of those whose bodies, identities or experiences are an uneasy fit with these norms. Across three sessions, this workshop featured short provocations from invited speakers spanning the social, creative and clinical reimaginings of menopause, bringing together people from diverse perspectives to explore these radical imaginaries.

In this lunchtime session, we will present an overview of the workshop sessions, what we learnt from the dialogue that emerged from these reimaginings, and how this can contribute to a localised and inclusive sociology of menopause.

Event Details:

Date: Thursday 15th May 2025
Time: 12:30pm - 13:30pm (AEST)
Format: Zoom Webinar
Cost: complimentary

Speakers

Dr Kerryn Drysdale
Dr Kerryn Drysdale (she/her) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health (CSRH), a specialist research centre at UNSW Sydney. Through her disciplinary background in Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and Queer Theory, she endeavours to bring a critical cultural lens to everyday lived experiences of pervasive health inequities and social determinants of health. In particular, Kerryn works with marginalised or vulnerable populations to determine their health and wellbeing needs.

Katherine Moline
Katherine Moline is Associate Professor at UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture. Her research focuses on the dynamics between technological and social forces in art and design. As UNSW Faculty Research Fellow Katherine led the curatorial team for the touring exhibition The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies, for Griffith University Art Museum (2021), Flinders University Museum of Art (2022), and the ANU School of Art & Design Gallery (2023). She is currently writing a book on the radical imaginaries of socially engaged design commissioned by Bloomsbury.

Professor Christy E. Newman
Professor Christy E. Newman (they/them) is a social researcher of health, gender, and sexuality at the Centre for Social Research in Health and Deputy Dean Research in UNSW Arts, Design and Architecture. Over the last 20 years, Christy has contributed expertise on qualitative social research, critical health sociology, and gender and sexuality diversity to multidisciplinary research on the social aspects of sexual and reproductive health, foregrounding community perspectives and partnerships.