Menopause was and continues to be pathologized and problematized. But what if we could shift that narrative? From Osunsweetnsour:
“Across cultures and over centuries, folkloric tales have told us to fear the maturing or older woman for she is often portrayed as magical, mystical, monstrous, or deadly. There is lore that speaks of her power, knowledge, and magic and she is often the face of evil, mystery, or represents imminent danger. These women become even more evil when they are enforcing their boundaries.
Different cultures call her by different names. In Senegal, she is Karaba. In Japan, she is Yama Uba. And in Russia, she is Baba Yaga. Her story, not told in her voice, is a cautionary tale of the power and treachery of older women. She is deliberately deceptive, highly intelligent, vengeful and one-dimensional—but who is she really? Where did she come from? Is she, in fact, menopausal, and what is her origin story?.
By 2025 there will be over 1 billion women experiencing menopause in the world, equal to 12 percent of the entire world population. Those numbers will be even higher if you factor in the people in the world who will experience menopause who don’t identify as women or are gender nonbinary. The dissolution of order during liminality creates a fluid, malleable situation that enables new institutions and customs to become established. It is a transformation to a new iteration of you. And maybe, just maybe, the old woman living in the woods is not a mythical threat, but a person navigating their highly individualized journey with menopause and aging that transforms everything she knows about her body and her relationship to the world around her.
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