As a woman not yet in peri or menopause, I desperately want a broader narrative around it
On wanting to hear stories that life doesn't end or is a perpetual dark cloud
Credit: MalsPhotography UK. I tried to find a stock image of something to depict the menopause and found a picture of a) a beach and b) a woman clearly in her seventies. So much for visibility and representation!
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