Menopunk The Vote!!

MENOPUNK THE VOTE kicks off Menopause Awareness Month with a MENOPUNKPEDALPALOOZA ride featuring a Menage Ah Twats (IG @menageahtwats) set, and a stop at the ballot box! MENOPUNKS is opening a month of advocacy the way it opened the summer: on two wheels, loud, and headed somewhere that matters. On October 2 at 6 PM, MENOPUNKS launches MENOPUNK THE VOTE with a MENOPUNKPEDALPALOOZA community bike ride through Portland, kicking off Menopause Awareness Month with a live performance from Menage Ah Twats, a speech from Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, MD, and Riot Grrl punk rock blasting from the sound system for the entire route. Riders will have the chance to register to vote along the way, with a dedicated stop at a mailbox to drop new registrations before the deadline. The timing is deliberate. The International Menopause Society set this year's World Menopause Day theme as Chronic Pain at Midlife, a topic deeply close to the MENOPUNKS heart: two decades of women were told their symptoms were in their heads, or not worth treating, because of a hormone replacement therapy study whose own investigators now say the results were manipulated. In November 2025, the FDA admitted as much, walking back 24 years of black box warnings. "Chronic pain at midlife isn't a mystery, it's a policy choice," said Alicia J. Rose, director and creator of MENOPUNKS. "We got denied care for twenty years. We're not asking politely for it back. We're riding through this city and registering every single person we can to go vote like it matters, because it does." MenopunkPEDALpalooza kicks off a full month of advocacy for MENOPUNKS, first launched at Menopunkapalooza this summer, and is the only stop this fall built around new voter registration. Website: menopunks.com MENOPUN Event link: https://shift2bikes.org/calendar/event-24938

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