Discussion sessions will be held on the following dates:
- Wednesday, April 9 at 9 a.m. (lead by Jan Gunderson)
- Thursday, April 10 at 12 p.m. (lead by Devon Olson)
Registration is closed.
Featured Comics
Session 4 will cover the following comics from Menopause: a comic treatment:
- The Big Change (p. 83)
- Paused (p. 84)
- Kimiko Does Menopause (p. 90)
- Surgical Menopause—in Ten Postures (p. 91)
- When the Menopause Carnival Comes to Town (p. 96)
- (A) Men-O-Pause (p. 112)
- Antique Restoration (p. 124)
The chapters in bold will be specifically featured in our discussion. If you don't have a chance to read all of the comics from this section, focus on those three for the discussion. (But feel free to also discuss others from this section if you would like!)
Discussion Questions
Discussion questions are suggestions to start and guide the conversation. The topics may vary based on attendee questions and comments.
Kimiko Does Menopause
- How does it visualize different experiences of Hot Flashes?
- What are the benefits to this being so informational and straightforward? Drawbacks?
When the Menopause Carnival Comes to Town
- Who is the main character: the mom or the daughter? Which one are we meant to identify with? Why?
- What do you think of the conclusion of this story? Is it ironic or too much to call it a “Freak Show”?
(A) Men-O-Pause
- How does this comic visualize connecting the human experience to the environment? Why might this be important in a medical context?
- What is your opinion of the following quotation and its framing device? "Mother Earth spoke: Take the men out of menopause, out of menstruation, menarche and all the myriad ways we had let our bodies be colonized"
