Episode 9: TAPPING INTO THE CRONE POWER OF MENOPAUSE with Lidia Yuknavitch

⚡️MENOPUNKS PODCAST ⚡️Friday, January 9, 2026

Show Notes

⚡️Brilliant artist/author/activist Lidia Yuknavitch joins the Menopunks conversation to celebrate the wide release of Kristen Stewart’s new film adaptation of her earthshaking novel “The Chronology of Water" and dish the dirt . Lidia and Alicia discuss fighting genocidal violence against women, reclaiming our blood & power post-meno, the audacious rebel yell of midlife, how community building can spark systemic change and the high stakes importance of making unflinching feminist art in the face of F*CK.🤘❤️‍🔥⚡️Lidia also dives into her work editing “THE BIG M” an upcoming all-star intersectional anthology of true peri/menopause stories out 1/27/26 that’s soooo fn on point! We will be featuring soon in another episode! ❤️‍🔥 Lidia is a true revolutionary and punk AF thought leader - what an absolute joy to go deep with her, just what we needed during these idiotic fascistic times. ❤️‍🔥⚡️MENOPUNKS X LIDIA FOREVER WE❤️ U⚡️

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