What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You [Paperback]

An informative, blisteringly funny, somewhat cranky and always spot-on guide to perimenopause and menopause by the award-winning sex ed/health educator and author of S.E.X.

Heather Corinna Makes Menopause Accessible, Hilarious, and Queer AF. Autostraddle

Did you see the title and flame-filled cover of this book, and did your weary, sweaty, confused, and exasperated soul scream, That one! That is the book for me!!? If so, Id first like to extend my deepest sympathies, an ice pack, and some of these very helpful edibles. If its three in the morning as youre reading this, as it may well be, you likely want those more than a book. But since I cant really give you the other stuff, I can at least offer you this book ...

Perimenopause and menopause experiences are as unique as all of us who move through them. While theres no one-size-fits-all, Heather Corinna tells you what can happen and what you can do to take care of yourself, all the while busting pernicious myths, offering real self-care tipsthe kind that wont break the bank or your souland running the gamut from hot flashes to hormone therapy.

With big-tent, practical, clear information and support, and inclusive of so many who have long been left out of the discussionpeople with disabilities; queer, transgender, nonbinary, and other gender-diverse people; BIPOC; working class and other folksWhat Fresh Hell Is This?is the cooling pillow and empathetic best friend to help you through the fire.

This book feels like your best friend talking to you over drinks-if your best friend is a shit-talking, patriarchy-smashing, intersectionally feminist professor of the history of reproductive medicine and also an endocrinologist with a side hustle as a comedian. Please read this book. -Emily Nagoski, PhD,New York Timesbestselling author ofCome As You Are