Gary Bouma Memorial Workshop:Reimagining Menopause
By
Kerryn Drysdale
Posted: 2024-12-15T00:19:17Z
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 a TASA workshop grant, UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture (Paddington campus) hosted a series of intersecting workshop dialogues exploring how narratives and responses to menopause, and other acute hormonal fluctuations, can be made more inclusive of those whose bodies, identities or experiences are an uneasy fit with these norms, particularly compulsory heterosexuality, cisgenderism, and parenthood.
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