MAUSI NET

  • October 10th-30th, 2025
  • 11:00am - 5:00pm
  • Project Space

Mausi NET Menopause artivism in the UK, Sweden and India

Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

In recent years, the growing public attention to menopause in the UK has been called “the menopause revolution”. This moment represents a unique opportunity: a decisive turning point for either extending or delimiting how menopause is popularly envisioned, approached, and experienced.

Our research, funded by the AHRC, engages this moment as a springboard to intervene and cultivate a more inclusive and informed reimagining of menopause, promoting greater awareness of how menopause is configured internationally in other sociocultural contexts. It aims to foster greater dialogue, knowledge, and diversity in the unfolding conversation about menopause, across academic, stakeholder and wider public communities, foregrounding lived experience.

As seen in the artefacts gathered here, MAUSI Net adopts an ‘artivist’ approach – embracing imaginative and art-based methods of expression to denounce social injustice, cultivate awareness, and motivate change in society, through artistic activism.

In September 2024, hosted by a local community organisation in a marginalised area of Malmö, we co-created menopause comic strips with Middle Eastern migrant women, supported by a feminist cartoonist, workshop facilitators, and community translators. Some of these cartoons were later made into paper biodegradable stickers about the project, distributed in artivist interventions in public spaces across Malmö, Delhi and London.
In February 2025 in Hapur, Delhi, NCR, we used ‘body mapping’ storytelling – in which life-size body outlines become canvases to communicate lived experience – to elicit stories from agricultural and domestic labourers experiencing menopause and post-menopause.

Despite contextual specificities, both workshops revealed a concerning unawareness of menopause symptoms; silence and invisibility around menopause in everyday language; and coexisting feelings of loss and hope – but also, crucially, finding freedom and solidarity with peers experiencing the menopause transition.

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