05/11/2026
A Message From Our Founder:
7 years
A sacred number
A number of completion, wisdom, protection, and transformation.
7 years ago, The Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause was born from a deeply personal search for respite and sanctuary.
What began as a creative sabbatical became a portal.
What began as truth-telling became community.
What began as survival at the margins became the Menopausal Multiverse.
We are a Black woman and genderqueer led, intergenerational, Southern-rooted Reproductive Justice organization telling the truth about menopause beyond the narrow stories we were given.
We believe there is no single menopause story.
We hold space for the full spectrum of reproductive aging and gender affirming care from the first period to post menopause and everything in between.
We center Black people across gender identity, class, ability, and lived circumstance, including people navigating menopause through hysterectomies, gender affirming care, disability, incarceration, and complex health journeys.
No one here is an afterthought.
For 7 years, we have built language, culture, storytelling, research, healing, art, and political imagination.
We have traveled across the diaspora and held sacred conversations that made room for people searching for themselves inside a national menopause conversation that too often erased them.
This is not a trend
This is cultural and narrative shift work
This is reproductive justice
This is ancestral work
And 7 years in, we are still becoming.
As we step into this next chapter, we are excited to deepen our research work in partnership with NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing, with funding support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, to help expand what intersectional menopause research can and should look like.
Stay tuned
The multiverse is expanding
