We begin Iranti ẹ̀jẹ̀ — Remembering Blood by leaving the atmosphere. Before we root ourselves in Earth, Water, Fire, and Air, we look to the Cosmos—the original ancestor, the infinite Blackness, the source of all breath and becoming. Guiding us into this sacred beginning is writer, scholar, and oracle Alexis Pauline Gumbs, who will offer a celestial meditation on the Earth as a post-menopausal being.

This conversation will offer grounding for those seeking to restore their connection to embodied, intergenerational healing practices—especially in a world that has tried to forget.

Our bodies remember the Earth—and the Earth remembers us. In this panel, herbalists, artists, and earthworkers come together to excavate the profound relationship between menopause and the plant realm.

Every story is a world, and in this moment, we will write ours. In this participatory offering, author, advocate, and educator Rachel Cargle will guide us through a collective narrative exercise that invites each participant to vision and articulate their own menopause journey.

What happens when we center abundance, rather than scarcity, in our vision of menopause? In this intimate lunchtime salon, we sit in conversation with Jessica Norwood, founder of Runway—a financial innovation firm that’s radically reimagining wealth, risk, and investment through the lens of Black liberation.

Who gets to be seen as menopausal—and who is erased from the frame? This intergenerational conversation brings together queer, gender-expansive, trans, and formerly incarcerated voices from across the menopausal spectrum to reimagine what menopause looks, feels, and sounds like.

In this fiery panel, we gather storytellers, sex educators and artists to explore the ways we return to pleasure and intimacy as a birthright during and after menopause. We will delve into the multiple sexual debuts we experience across a lifetime and the ways aging can reveal new dimensions of our sensual selves.

Menopause is not a moment—it’s a passage. One that touches every part of who we are: body, mind, spirit, memory, and relationship. This panel gathers an intergenerational circle of healers—doctors, therapists, bodyworkers, spiritual practitioners, and somatic guides—who have committed their practices to honoring the full spectrum of this transformation.

On the final day of Iranti ẹ̀jẹ̀ — Remembering Blood, we return to the element that carries us all: Water. Water holds memory. Water connects us across generations. In this deeply resonant offering, writer, healer, and radical truth-teller Sonya Renee Taylor gathers an intergenerational circle of healers whose work spans clinical, carceral, communal, and spiritual spaces.