HOLY. ALL. OF THIS. Add fat bias to it and getting appropriate healthcare in midlife, especially for perimenopause or menopause, is demoralizing and beyond difficult. Especially in a small town when I will not see male providers or providers who wouldn’t prioritize a pregnant person’s care over a fetus. Yes, this is an important question for me. Because my body is not an apology. It is the body of a survivor. It remembers and is a roadmap of all the things I have experienced, from rape to abortion to choosing motherhood to infertility and miscarriage to childbirth and breastfeeding to, today, menopause. Thank you for this, Shannon.
THIS. I have been telling folks that no one is paying attention to this except an underground group of women. And we don’t know what we don’t know until it happens to us and we have to do all the research with tools that only tell part of the story! Thank you for sharing!
Yeah it's interesting that it is almost entirely ignored by mainstream society, except for the odd advertisement and jokes coming from men, which doesn't help.
HOLY. ALL. OF THIS. Add fat bias to it and getting appropriate healthcare in midlife, especially for perimenopause or menopause, is demoralizing and beyond difficult. Especially in a small town when I will not see male providers or providers who wouldn’t prioritize a pregnant person’s care over a fetus. Yes, this is an important question for me. Because my body is not an apology. It is the body of a survivor. It remembers and is a roadmap of all the things I have experienced, from rape to abortion to choosing motherhood to infertility and miscarriage to childbirth and breastfeeding to, today, menopause. Thank you for this, Shannon.
THIS. I have been telling folks that no one is paying attention to this except an underground group of women. And we don’t know what we don’t know until it happens to us and we have to do all the research with tools that only tell part of the story! Thank you for sharing!
Yeah it's interesting that it is almost entirely ignored by mainstream society, except for the odd advertisement and jokes coming from men, which doesn't help.