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Alicia J Rose 35 Episodes Oct 9, 2026

Filmmaker and musician Alicia J. Rose hosts a podcast about menopause and perimenopause, aiming to empower women with accurate information and challenge medical misinformation about hormone replacement therapy. The show combines personal stories, expert interviews, and a call to action for a hormonal revolution. It is part of a feature documentary project of the same name.

Episodes

Episode 48: SHUTTING DOWN THE HORMONE POLICE TO EMPOWER A GENDER EXPANSIVE WORLD with MISS PEPPERMIN
Episode 48: SHUTTING DOWN THE HORMONE POLICE TO EMPOWER A GENDER EXPANSIVE WORLD with MISS PEPPERMIN Oct 9, 2026 01:06:07 ⚡️This week we get the absolute gift of talking with brilliant entertainer/activist and the ACLU'S first-ever Artist Ambassador for Transgender Justice MISS PEPPERMINT ! ⚡️⚡️Pepp & Alicia get into the overlap between trans rights, peri/menopause care, reproductive access, and bodily autonomy. Pepp makes the case that attacks on trans people are really attacks on privacy, medical freedom, a
Episode 47: BUSTING THROUGH THE MYSTERIES OF BIPOLAR PERI/MENOPAUSE with JIBZ CAMERON aka DYNASTY HANDBAG
Episode 47: BUSTING THROUGH THE MYSTERIES OF BIPOLAR PERI/MENOPAUSE with JIBZ CAMERON aka DYNASTY HANDBAG Oct 2, 2026 01:26:54 ⚡️In this week's In this weeks episode Alicia and Jibz Cameron AKA Dynasty Handbag connect the dots between creativity, survival, bipolar disorder and the ways women and AFAB people have been under-treated for decades. We get into her feral childhood origin story and fierce memoir “Hell in a Handbag”, her brilliantly strange alchemy of performance and autobiography, how trauma, queerness, and
Episode 46: GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF MAN-O-PAUSE with Mr. Showbiz Murray Hill
Episode 46: GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF MAN-O-PAUSE with Mr. Showbiz Murray Hill Sep 25, 2026 01:17:31 ⚡️On this weeks pod we had the honor and delight of hearing from one of the funniest and most entertaining humans in the universe - MR. SHOWBIZ himself - actor & comedian Murray Hill!!Murray deep dives into his memoir, *Showbiz: My Life as a Middle-Aged Man*, including his beginnings in drag king performance and trans identity, addiction, abuse, survival, and reinvention. He gets into overcomi
Episode 45: BURNING THE MENOPAUSE PLAYBOOK TO START A HORMONAL RIOT w/ THEO KOGAN & SYDNEY SILVER of LUNACHICKS
Episode 45: BURNING THE MENOPAUSE PLAYBOOK TO START A HORMONAL RIOT w/ THEO KOGAN & SYDNEY SILVER of LUNACHICKS Sep 18, 2026 01:25:20 ⚡️This week we laughcry our ever loving buns off with two absolute PUNK ICONS Theo Kogan and Sydney Silver of Lunachicks! 🎉❤️‍🔥⚡️We get into the wild pre-teen origin story of the Lunachicks, their roller coaster of a ride through the music biz as an all-female band, their own rollicking peri/meno tales, the role of hormones in creativity, the intersection of reproductive health and artistic expres
Episode 44: SMASHING PATRIARCHAL AGEISM WITH RADICAL SELF LOVE W/ HEIDI CLEMENTS & CONSTANCE ZIMMER
Episode 44: SMASHING PATRIARCHAL AGEISM WITH RADICAL SELF LOVE W/ HEIDI CLEMENTS & CONSTANCE ZIMMER Sep 11, 2026 01:16:31 ⚡️On this week’s pod we get to bask in the delightful chemistry of besties Heidi Clements & Constance Zimmer - badass feminist icons and co-hosts of fellow meno-zoned pod Talk 50 To Me! ⚡️❤️‍🔥You probably know the fab & fashionable Heidi from her punk AF viral pro-aging poetic hot takes and Constance from her decades of brilliant acting and directing including a recent Emmy nom for her sup
Episode 43: MANIFESTING A MIDLIFE RESURRECTION IN PERI/MENOPAUSE with MELISSA AUF DER MAUR
Episode 43: MANIFESTING A MIDLIFE RESURRECTION IN PERI/MENOPAUSE with MELISSA AUF DER MAUR Sep 4, 2026 01:21:01 ❤️‍🔥This week we channel a brighter future with legendary 90’s bass babe, badass photographer, writer and all around mystical human Melissa Auf der Maur !! ❤️‍🔥⚡️A truly delightful multidisciplinary artist and deeply ebullient spirit Melissa brings us into how her radical feminist Canadian upbringing inspired her wild bass adventures in 90’s rock with Hole & The Smashing Pumpkins and why she i
Episode 42: BREAKING THROUGH THE HORMONAL MUSCULOSKELETAL CHAOS OF PERI/MENOPAUSE with Dr. Nancy Yen Shipley, MD
Episode 42: BREAKING THROUGH THE HORMONAL MUSCULOSKELETAL CHAOS OF PERI/MENOPAUSE with Dr. Nancy Yen Shipley, MD Aug 28, 2026 00:49:00 ❤️‍🔥 On this weeks pod we go deep with renowned Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Nancy Yen Shipley, M.D.!! ❤️‍🔥🦴Together Nancy and Alicia get into why estrogen loss affects bones, joints, ligaments, and recovery time, the benefits of joint  preservation versus joint replacement in midlife, how her own early perimenopause symptoms changed her orthopedic practice, why understanding Musculoskeletal Syndrome of
Episode 41: SUPERCHARGING COMMUNITY CARE & HORMONAL ACTIVISM IN PERI/MENOPAUSE with Kim Stegeman of Rose City Rollers
Episode 41: SUPERCHARGING COMMUNITY CARE & HORMONAL ACTIVISM IN PERI/MENOPAUSE with Kim Stegeman of Rose City Rollers Aug 21, 2026 01:15:37 ⚡️Episode 41: SUPERCHARGING COMMUNITY CARE & HORMONAL ACTIVISM IN PERI/MENOPAUSE with Kim Stegeman ⚡️⚡️This week on the pod we hip check the patriarchy and get a fierce peri/meno pep talk from Kim Stegeman aka Rocketmean, founder of Rose City Rollers and author of The Menopause Unicorn!"🦄💥Kim takes us into her mis/adventures with perimenopause, hormone replacement therapy, and the radical
Episode 40: ACTIVATING A FUTURE WITH RADICALLY INNOVATIVE MIDLIFE CARE with Sabrina Martucci Johnson of Daré Bioscience
Episode 40: ACTIVATING A FUTURE WITH RADICALLY INNOVATIVE MIDLIFE CARE with Sabrina Martucci Johnson of Daré Bioscience Aug 14, 2026 01:09:07 ⚡️This week we talk to Sabrina Martucci Johnson, the brilliant CEO & founder of women’s health bioscience innovators Daré Bioscience. 🧬 We wanted to dive into making a future we all want to live in so we got into how Daré is working to close the gender gap in medical research, what incredible new HRT & drug delivery systems for women are coming down the pike (even Female Viagra!!), how hor
Episode 39: WEAPONIZING PERI/MENOPAUSAL RAGE TO FIGHT SYSTEMIC DISEMPOWERMENT with LORI S. of ACID KING
Episode 39: WEAPONIZING PERI/MENOPAUSAL RAGE TO FIGHT SYSTEMIC DISEMPOWERMENT with LORI S. of ACID KING Aug 7, 2026 01:02:38 ⚡️On this weeks pod we talk to legendary guitarist LORI S. of stoner rock rippers Acid King!! Besides bringing her singular style of power shredding to the doom/stoner metal scene Lori is a fierce advocate for hormonal access and reproductive justice for all! 💪 We got into Lori's inspiring journey as a female musician in the male dominated metal scene, how Suzanne Somer's unexpectedly help
Episode 38: SHREDDING THE STIGMATIZATION OF GENDER AFFIRMING CARE WITH MENOPUNKS OF COMEDY Mx. Dahlia Belle, Arlo Weierhauser and Brooks
Episode 38: SHREDDING THE STIGMATIZATION OF GENDER AFFIRMING CARE WITH MENOPUNKS OF COMEDY Mx. Dahlia Belle, Arlo Weierhauser and Brooks Jul 31, 2026 01:22:30 ⚡️In this week’s episode, we get to laugh our collective stress off with MENOPUNKS OF COMEDY Mx. Dahlia Belle, Arlo Weierhauser and Brooks fresh off their smash hit sets at MENOPUNKAPALOOZA ‘26! This trio of brilliant, queer, gender expansive comedic minds share their hormonal experiences with fresh POV and next level hilarity! Mx. Dahlia Belle brings us into how she found true freedom by transiti
Episode 37: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SPARKING A HORMONAL REVOLUTION With Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
Episode 37: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO SPARKING A HORMONAL REVOLUTION With Jennifer Weiss-Wolf Jul 24, 2026 01:18:09 ⚡️In this weeks episode we go under the hood of what it takes to spark a hormonal revolution with  Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, lawyer, activist and author of upcoming book “When In Menopause.” Weiss-Wolf's brilliant piece in THE NATION, “What We Can Learn From the Current Menopause Moment” caught our attention with its on point zoom out of the women’s peri/meno health crisis we are in and actionable

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