User:Becha/Hacking-Menopause
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Contents
Workshop Proposal
I have noticed that more & more of my fellow "women in tech" are aging into the life-phase known as "menopause". In this workshop, I want to have a group discussion to explore challenges & joys of menopause. I'd like us to share tips&tricks, and collectively generate knowledge, that will be primarily useful to us - but might result in some resources to publish, too. Although my personal experience is as a cis-woman, I would specifically like to invite trans-gender-hackers to share the experiences of DIY hormonal therapies. I do not want to "teach" : my role is to be a workshop facilitator & to make it possible to pluck the berries of our collective creativity.
Goals
- Exchange of experiences about challenges of menopause
- Collective harvesting of suggestions, practices, solutions
- Creative outcomes
Time Plan
- 2 hours
- 10 minute intro
- 10 minute exchange in pairs
- 20 minutes exercise in groups 3-5 people (illustrating challenges)
- 20 minute round of presenting outcomes
- 5 minute break
- 25 minute exercise in groups 3-5 people (illustrating solutions)
- 20 minutes round of presenting outcomes
- 10 minutes closing
Material
- Large papers
- Pens or markers
- floor space or tables or walls
- And/or, we can use any other creativity tools, for online cooperation or zine making...
Info
Links
- https://transfemscience.org/
- https://wisepause.com
- https://osf.io/esmuz : Rebecca Sear: Menopause: a biocultural perspective (Slides for a teaching session on menopause: a biocultural perspective) October 18, 2023
- https://balance-menopause.com/uploads/2022/01/Mental-health-and-emotional-wellbeing-booklet.pdf
