‘Declare Yourself a Problem’: How to Get Real Menopause Care

Actress Kristen Johnston saw more than 15 doctors before anyone figured out she had lupus. Her symptoms were so severe, she said she needed a neck brace to hold her head up. A few of those doctors made her feel like her symptoms were all in her head. In this solo episode of B*tch, Listen, Imani Gandy has a theory: Doctors walk into the exam room already picturing who gets sick, and women who don’t fit the picture are told it’s anxiety. In one week, Johnston joins the show to share her experience and explain why you should request your medical records ASAP. Expert Repro Journalism That Inspires.Episodes like this take time, research, and a commitment to the truth. Become a supporter today. -  https://rewirenewsgroup.com/support-b-tch-listen-rss/ Imani has relaunched her column, AngryBlackLady Chronicles - https://rewirenewsgroup.com/ablc/Sign up for our newsletters to read it first. https://rewirenewsgroup.com/newsletters/ Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boom-lawyered/id1282116646 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/110tPZQY3WD2mkq6EYqZf1Follow Rewire News Group on Social Media.Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rewirenewsgroup.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rewirenewsgroup/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rewirenewsgrpThreads: https://www.threads.com/@rewirenewsgroupLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rewire-news-group/Follow Imani on Social Media:Imani on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/angryblacklady.blacksky.appImani on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angryblacklady/

Last episode, Imani Gandy brought a pile of menopause questions and no theory. This week, she’s taking her questions to Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, author of When in Menopause: A User’s Manual & Citizen’s Guide. Weiss-Wolf explains what to write down before an appointment, why to book a standalone visit, and what to say when your doctor dismisses your symptoms or says you watch too many videos on TikTok. They also get into why Black women often get inadequate care, why your mom and your aunts should hear what you’re learning, and why Gen X is blowing open the menopause conversation for good.  Expert Repro Journalism That Inspires.Episodes like this take time, research, and a commitment to the truth. Become a supporter today. -  https://rewirenewsgroup.com/support-b-tch-listen-rss/ Imani has relaunched her column, AngryBlackLady Chronicles - https://rewirenewsgroup.com/ablc/Sign up for our newsletters to read it first. https://rewirenewsgroup.com/newsletters/ Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boom-lawyered/id1282116646 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/110tPZQY3WD2mkq6EYqZf1Follow Rewire News Group on Social Media.Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rewirenewsgroup.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rewirenewsgroup/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rewirenewsgrpThreads: https://www.threads.com/@rewirenewsgroupLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rewire-news-group/Follow Imani on Social Media:Imani on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/angryblacklady.blacksky.appImani on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angryblacklady/

Nobody told Imani Gandy menopause could make your ears itch. Or might give you hives. Or that the dark, intrusive thoughts she started having might be related to hormones. She’s covered reproductive rights and justice for 15 years, and she still found herself figuring it out on her own. She’s betting there’s a lot that you probably don’t know either. So Imani is breaking her own show format. No theory, just questions. Next episode, she takes them to Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, author of the new book When in Menopause: A User’s Manual & Citizen’s Guide.This episode discusses suicidal ideation. If you’re struggling, call or text 988, the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.  Expert Repro Journalism That Inspires.Episodes like this take time, research, and a commitment to the truth. Become a supporter today. -  https://rewirenewsgroup.com/support-b-tch-listen-rss/ Imani has relaunched her column, AngryBlackLady Chronicles - https://rewirenewsgroup.com/ablc/Sign up for our newsletters to read it first. https://rewirenewsgroup.com/newsletters/ Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boom-lawyered/id1282116646 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/110tPZQY3WD2mkq6EYqZf1Follow Rewire News Group on Social Media.Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rewirenewsgroup.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rewirenewsgroup/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rewirenewsgrpThreads: https://www.threads.com/@rewirenewsgroupLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rewire-news-group/Follow Imani on Social Media:Imani on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/angryblacklady.blacksky.appImani on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angryblacklady/

There's no trans woman in the WNBA. And still, Sophie Cunningham, Enes Kanter Freedom, and a fresh crop of Caitlin Clark “fans” are acting like the league's about to collapse. In the last episode, I said this fight is really about who owns the league. This week, Portia Burch, anti-racism and decolonization consultant, 30-year WNBA fan, and my girlfriend, explains why my theory's right—but too small. We get into the myth that Clark saved the league, the career moves hiding behind the manufactured panic, the Black and queer cis players catching transphobic strays.  Expert Repro Journalism That Inspires.Episodes like this take time, research, and a commitment to the truth. Become a supporter today. -  https://rewirenewsgroup.com/support-b-tch-listen-rss/ Imani has relaunched her column, AngryBlackLady Chronicles - https://rewirenewsgroup.com/ablc/Sign up for our newsletters to read it first. https://rewirenewsgroup.com/newsletters/ Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boom-lawyered/id1282116646 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/110tPZQY3WD2mkq6EYqZf1Follow Rewire News Group on Social Media.Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rewirenewsgroup.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rewirenewsgroup/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rewirenewsgrpThreads: https://www.threads.com/@rewirenewsgroupLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rewire-news-group/Follow Imani on Social Media:Imani on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/angryblacklady.blacksky.appImani on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angryblacklady/

There are no trans women in the WNBA; and no known history of them ever having played in the league. So how did Sophie Cunningham and Enes Kanter Freedom become the faces of a movement to “protect” women’s sports? Imani Gandy follows the manufactured panic to the fight underneath it: who built the league, who thinks they saved it, and who gets to define what it stands for. Expert Repro Journalism That Inspires.Episodes like this take time, research, and a commitment to the truth. Become a supporter today. -  https://rewirenewsgroup.com/support-b-tch-listen-rss/ Imani has relaunched her column, AngryBlackLady Chronicles - https://rewirenewsgroup.com/ablc/Sign up for our newsletters to read it first. https://rewirenewsgroup.com/newsletters/ Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boom-lawyered/id1282116646 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/110tPZQY3WD2mkq6EYqZf1Follow Rewire News Group on Social Media.Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rewirenewsgroup.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rewirenewsgroup/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rewirenewsgrpThreads: https://www.threads.com/@rewirenewsgroupLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rewire-news-group/Follow Imani on Social Media:Imani on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/angryblacklady.blacksky.appImani on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angryblacklady/

In this episode of B*tch, Listen, Imani Gandy has a theory: Medicaid coverage for abortion collapses first, even in states where Democrats hold power. Christina Chang, who runs Reproductive Freedom Alliance, the 24-governor coalition fighting to keep abortion access alive post-Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, isn't so sure it's about abortion specifically, but rather funding for the poor generally. Gandy and Chang get into what the alliance has accomplished: shield laws protecting providers, states funding abortion out of their own pockets, and strategy sharing among alliance members. Then, Gandy brings up Michigan, a Democratic trifecta that still couldn't fund abortion coverage—but Chang isn't ready to call it a pattern. Expert Repro Journalism That Inspires.Episodes like this take time, research, and a commitment to the truth. Become a supporter today. -  https://rewirenewsgroup.com/support-b-tch-listen-rss/ Imani has relaunched her column, AngryBlackLady Chronicles - https://rewirenewsgroup.com/ablc/Sign up for our newsletters to read it first. https://rewirenewsgroup.com/newsletters/ Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boom-lawyered/id1282116646 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/110tPZQY3WD2mkq6EYqZf1Follow Rewire News Group on Social Media.Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rewirenewsgroup.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rewirenewsgroup/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rewirenewsgrpThreads: https://www.threads.com/@rewirenewsgroupLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rewire-news-group/Follow Imani on Social Media:Imani on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/angryblacklady.blacksky.appImani on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angryblacklady/

In this solo episode of B*tch, Listen, Imani Gandy asks what it means to protect abortion rights on paper when people can't afford to use them in practice. Her theory: Funding is the first thing a coalition gives up, because funding for abortion can be capped and watered down in a way a constitutional amendment can't. Most states in the nonpartisan Reproductive Freedom Alliance coalition now cover abortion through Medicaid—but Michigan shows how fast that coverage gets negotiable when the votes are tight. Expert Repro Journalism That Inspires.Episodes like this take time, research, and a commitment to the truth. Become a supporter today. -  https://rewirenewsgroup.com/support-b-tch-listen-rss/ Imani has relaunched her column, AngryBlackLady Chronicles - https://rewirenewsgroup.com/ablc/Sign up for our newsletters to read it first. https://rewirenewsgroup.com/newsletters/ Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boom-lawyered/id1282116646 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/110tPZQY3WD2mkq6EYqZf1Follow Rewire News Group on Social Media.Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rewirenewsgroup.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rewirenewsgroup/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rewirenewsgrpThreads: https://www.threads.com/@rewirenewsgroupLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rewire-news-group/Follow Imani on Social Media:Imani on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/angryblacklady.blacksky.appImani on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angryblacklady/

In this episode of B*tch, Listen, Imani Gandy tests her theory that the best political humor doesn’t win arguments—but instead changes what people think deserves to be taken seriously in the first place—with Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and founder of Abortion Access Front. Winstead agrees with most of Gandy’s theory, but complicates it: Is the point of political comedy to build an audience, or to build a movement? And what happens to all that comedy-fueled outrage when it has nowhere left to go? Winstead has a name for that: anger fluffing. And she finds it pointless. Expert Repro Journalism That Inspires.Episodes like this take time, research, and a commitment to the truth. Become a supporter today. -  https://rewirenewsgroup.com/support-b-tch-listen-rss/ Imani has relaunched her column, AngryBlackLady Chronicles - https://rewirenewsgroup.com/ablc/Sign up for our newsletters to read it first. https://rewirenewsgroup.com/newsletters/ Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boom-lawyered/id1282116646 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/110tPZQY3WD2mkq6EYqZf1Follow Rewire News Group on Social Media.Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rewirenewsgroup.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rewirenewsgroup/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rewirenewsgrpThreads: https://www.threads.com/@rewirenewsgroupLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rewire-news-group/Follow Imani on Social Media:Imani on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/angryblacklady.blacksky.appImani on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angryblacklady/

In this classic episode part two of her series on true crime and disability, Imani Gandy interviews Dateline correspondent Josh Mankiewicz about true crime as a machine that decides whose stories get told—and whose don’t. From missing Black women, to missing and murdered Indigenous people, to the near invisibility of disabled victims, they talk about what true crime shows—and what it leaves out. Because attention itself is a form of power. (And yes, there’s a Bill Hader moment.) Expert Repro Journalism That Inspires.Episodes like this take time, research, and a commitment to the truth. Become a supporter today. -  https://rewirenewsgroup.com/support-b-tch-listen-rss/ Imani has relaunched her column, AngryBlackLady Chronicles - https://rewirenewsgroup.com/ablc/Sign up for our newsletters to read it first. https://rewirenewsgroup.com/newsletters/ Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boom-lawyered/id1282116646 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/110tPZQY3WD2mkq6EYqZf1Follow Rewire News Group on Social Media.Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rewirenewsgroup.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rewirenewsgroup/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rewirenewsgrpThreads: https://www.threads.com/@rewirenewsgroupLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rewire-news-group/Follow Imani on Social Media:Imani on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/angryblacklady.blacksky.appImani on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angryblacklady/

True crime is everywhere—but crimes against disabled people are rarely treated as “true crime” at all. In this classic episode, Imani Gandy talks with disability justice advocate Vilissa Thompson about why disabled victims are erased from true crime, how ableism shapes which stories get told, and what ethical storytelling requires when disability is involved. Expert Repro Journalism That Inspires.Episodes like this take time, research, and a commitment to the truth. Become a supporter today. -  https://rewirenewsgroup.com/support-b-tch-listen-rss/ Imani has relaunched her column, AngryBlackLady Chronicles - https://rewirenewsgroup.com/ablc/Sign up for our newsletters to read it first. https://rewirenewsgroup.com/newsletters/ Subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/boom-lawyered/id1282116646 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/110tPZQY3WD2mkq6EYqZf1Follow Rewire News Group on Social Media.Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rewirenewsgroup.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rewirenewsgroup/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rewirenewsgrpThreads: https://www.threads.com/@rewirenewsgroupLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/rewire-news-group/Follow Imani on Social Media:Imani on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/angryblacklady.blacksky.appImani on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/angryblacklady/