FELICITAS VAN LAAK EXPLORES QUEER EXPERIENCES OF MENOPAUSE
My all-time favourite reference to the menopause is a conversation in Fleabag where Belinda refers to it as “the most wonderful fucking thing in the world”, to which Fleabag answers, “I was told it was horrendous”, and Belinda replies, “It is horrendous, but then it’s magnificent”. This brilliant exception only confirms the rule that media representations of menopausal women are scarce, while representations of queer people going through menopause are non-existent.