DELHI
This participatory workshop, held in Hapur College in February 2025 brings together women
from rural and working-class backgrounds to co-create powerful visual and narrative
expressions of their experiences of menopause. Using body mapping storytelling,
participants drew on their embodied knowledge to map the emotional, social, and physical
dimensions of menopausal life.
The body maps act as starting points for storytelling, allowing women to reflect on their health, labour, and lived realities within the layered contexts of caste, class, gender, and rural precarity. Alongside this process, participants generated artivist materials—body maps that
included slogans—that speak to their unique challenges and solidarities, amplifying
voices too often left out of mainstream health and feminist narratives.
This workshop foregrounds creative storytelling as a method of resistance and
recognition, centring the everyday wisdom and collective knowledge of women whose
experiences with menopause have been historically neglected or silenced.