Episode 47: BUSTING THROUGH THE MYSTERIES OF BIPOLAR PERI/MENOPAUSE with JIBZ CAMERON aka DYNASTY HANDBAG

⚡️MENOPUNKS PODCAST ⚡️

October 2, 2026 ∙ 87 mins
Episode 48

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⚡️In this week's In this weeks episode Alicia and Jibz Cameron AKA Dynasty Handbag connect the dots between creativity, survival, bipolar disorder and the ways women and AFAB people have been under-treated for decades.

We get into her feral childhood origin story and fierce memoir “Hell in a Handbag”, her brilliantly strange alchemy of performance and autobiography, how trauma, queerness, and art shaped her persona, and how hormone access, mental health, and midlife care is a deeply political issue.

We also dive into hacks for self-advocacy, the exhausting estrogen patch shortage 🤬, how sharing stories with community can be life saving, overcoming struggles with body image, aging, neurodivergence, masking, the need for rest AND SO MUCH MORE!  ⚡️


Thank you for sharing your truly inspiring and bananas ride with us Jibz! You are a true gem of gems!💎 READ “HELL IN A HANDBAG” out now on Dopamine Books.


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⚡️MENOPUNKS PODCAST ⚡️

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48

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October 2, 2026

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87 mins
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⚡️MENOPUNKS PODCAST ⚡️

I’m filmmaker and musician Alicia J. Rose, and I want to empower women with the motherf$#@!% energy to start a hormonal revolution. By 2030, one billion women will be in menopause. One. Billion. Imagine if every man’s testosterone flatlined by 50 — you think the world would stay quiet about that? Welcome to menopause: complete hormonal upheaval. And perimenopause? She’s the […]

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