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SUMMARY:MENOPUNK THE VOTE!!
STATUS:CONFIRMED
LOCATION:Irving Park\, Irvington
DESCRIPTION:RSVP for the ride at bit.ly/menopunkthevote\n\nMENOPUNK THE VOT
 E kicks off Menopause Awareness Month with a Menopunks-powered protest rid
 e!\n\nMENOPUNKS is opening a month of advocacy the way it opened the summe
 r: on two wheels\, loud\, and headed somewhere that matters.\n\nOn October
  2 at 6 PM\, MENOPUNKS launches MENOPUNK THE VOTE with a community bike ri
 de through Portland\, kicking off Menopause Awareness Month with Riot Grrl
  punk rock blasting from the sound system for the entire route. Riders wil
 l have the chance to register to vote along the way\, with a dedicated sto
 p at a mailbox to drop new registrations before the deadline.\n\nThe timin
 g 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 th
 erapy study whose own investigators now say the results were manipulated. 
 In November 2025\, the FDA admitted as much\, walking back 24 years of bla
 ck box warnings.\n\n"Chronic pain at midlife isn't a mystery\, it's a poli
 cy 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. W
 e're riding through this city and registering every single person we can t
 o go vote like it matters\, because it does."\n\nMENOPUNK the VOTE kicks o
 ff a full month of advocacy for MENOPUNKS\, first launched at Menopunkapal
 ooza this summer\, and is the only stop this fall built around new voter r
 egistration.\n\n\nRSVP for the ride at bit.ly/menopunkthevote\n\n\nWebsite
 : menopunks.com\n\nMENOPUNKS is a documentary-in-progress and podcast crea
 ted by Alicia J. Rose that explores peri/menopause\, creativity\, and heal
 thcare through the stories of iconic musicians\, artists\, physicians\, an
 d advocates. Combining punk rock energy with midlife healthcare activism\,
  MENOPUNKS is building a movement dedicated to informed care\, hormonal ju
 stice\, and changing the narrative around midlife healthcare for all.\n\nR
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