Femme Forgotten

Dawn Stergin
4 min readMay 22, 2019

A Taboo Time of Life and The Right To Choose

A faction of women I believe are typically forgotten about and rarely discussed whenever women are discussed, are again disregarded in current critical political conversation. It seems a subject still taboo, which makes it my new favorite subject. It’s also quite relevant to me now that I am in my 50's.

Peri and post-menopause is something all women will eventually become. I have found that both men and women are often uncomfortable when I raise the subject. My mother certainly never mentioned menopause. Some women tell me they…

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Dawn Stergin

Former addictions counselor, empty-nester, activist, animal lover, writer and lover of what it means to be human.