Earning a PhD in the LGBTQ+ experience of menopause
August 5, 2022
Ann Marie speaks to Rebecca Ann Simmons, a PhD researcher at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds, whose research aims to uncover the multiplicity of experiences among LGBTQ+ people who are or have experienced menopause
Ann Marie speaks to Rebecca Ann Simmons, a PhD researcher at the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. Her research aims to uncover the multiplicity of experiences among LGBTQ+ people who are or have experienced menopause, using creative methods such as body mapping to do so. She is affiliated with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Leeds.
Highlights:
• How Rebecca became interested in the LGBTQ+ experience in menopause
• How she's carrying out her research
• Some of the challenges she's uncovered that people are facing
• The dearth of research that exists in this area
• Gender and sexual fluidity in midlife
• The midlife reconstruction of the self
• Her bidirectional age experience
• How to be a good cis ally
• The outsized focus on hormone therapy
• Her dream for LGBTQ+ menopause research
Where to find Rebecca:
Twitter: @LgbtqMenoProj
Highlights:
• How Rebecca became interested in the LGBTQ+ experience in menopause
• How she's carrying out her research
• Some of the challenges she's uncovered that people are facing
• The dearth of research that exists in this area
• Gender and sexual fluidity in midlife
• The midlife reconstruction of the self
• Her bidirectional age experience
• How to be a good cis ally
• The outsized focus on hormone therapy
• Her dream for LGBTQ+ menopause research
Where to find Rebecca:
Twitter: @LgbtqMenoProj
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