Between Bodies and Technology: Voicing Menopause through a Feminist Exploration

This PhD research is concerned with the experiences of menopausal bodies.Societal narratives often define and confine menopause as a pathological matter, an individualized problem of a cis-normative body.However, embodied experiences of menopause develop through entangled relational, sociocultural, political, and technological involvements.Grounded in critical-feminist HCI, feminist technoscience, and crip technoscience, my PhD research explores alternative ways to reshape how menopause can be represented and experienced to foreground care, agency, and diverse lived experiences and stories.This PhD research paper outlines the background, research objectives, methodological overview, current status, next steps and project's contributions.It highlights design approaches that seek to challenge existing prejudices and taboos and cultivate care through technological interventions, while facilitating communication about menopause in everyday settings (such as online and on-site workspaces and homes).