MENOPAUSHION

I remembered my childhood, when my grandmother would sweat and struggle desperately with the heat. Years later, I saw the same thing happen to my mother.The phrase I heard most often was: “Don’t you feel hot? Can we open a window?”But it was winter, and outside it was barely five degrees. 

It is a strange sensation: a fire on the skin, like when you have a high fever and the body burns without control. It truly creates a feeling of desperation. And I think about the absurdity that men will never be able to experience these—or so many other sensations that belong to female bodies—because we inhabit bodies configured in different ways.

It is something internal, intense, and without warning.

This work is dedicated to all those women who reached menopause without realizing that time had flown by and forgot that they carried an internal biological clock.Something that accompanied you for so many years suddenly stops without warning. The feeling is one of emptiness, as if something has been lost.