On the crisis of elderhood & the medicalisation of women

World Women's Day reflections

“I know exactly how you feel” someone shared with me the other day, “but I’ve been on hormones for the past year and I finally feel like my old self again.”

I’ve had many interactions like this over the past months and each one offers another opportunity to pause for a moment and question my choice of meeting the challenges of being a woman in midlife, …