Daily Dose: 103

Feminism in 3D: Defy, Disobey, Disrupt

Logo: Sheyam Ghieth

Is menopause harder when you’ve ticked off milestones that have become reminders of how few of them lie ahead still? Or is it harder when you eschewed those milestones and now you have less to show for your life, and perhaps even less to regret? I am not married, I do not own a house, I am childfree by choice. Three milestones (determined by who?) deliberately unmet. Now what? For some of us this stage of our lives is not about acclimating to empty nests because we never had a nest nor did we want one, we wanted to wander. What lies beneath my (rented) nest intentionally kept empty at a time when cis women contemporaries are reckoning with the mirror opposite and coming up with the same “now what?” What is menopause for those of us who opted out of the milestones and is menopause the great leveler because we end up at the same place anyway?