Author: Omisade Burney-Scott

Omisade Burney-Scott is a seventh-generation Black Southern feminist, storyteller and social justice advocate. She is also the creator and curator of "The Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause" (BGG2SM), a multimedia project focused on normalizing menopause and aging through the centering of the stories of Black women, women-identified and gender expansive people. She has been featured in numerous outlets including Oprah Daily, Forbes, VOGUE, Prevention, the Washington Post and the New York Times. Burney-Scott and BGG2SM will be partnering with The Honey Pot Company for World Menopause Month, as well as the Embodied Podcast at WUNC-North Carolina Public Radio for a series of weekly videos. She currently resides in North Carolina.

Not Your Mother’s Menopause

We all remember the moment we heard her story: an old woman, a witch, a shapeshifter, a ghost, who was feared by all who encountered her—likely somewhere between 40 and 101 years old.

But maybe the old woman living in the woods is not a mythical threat, but a person navigating their highly individualized journey with menopause and aging that transforms everything she knows about her body and her relationship to the world around her. Perhaps we should take another look and see her in her full personhood.