Film Screening & Roundtable Discussion: The [M] Factor

Celebrate Menopause Awareness Month and enjoy a screening of "The [M] Factor," the first documentary film on the health crisis faced by millions of women going through menopause.

Menopause remains one of the last taboos in our permissive, talk-about-everything pop culture. Even though every woman will go through some form of this chemical “reordering,” menopause is still regarded as a condition or a disease. Most people understand it as just another “normal” phase in a woman’s life, a phase that is essentially dismissed as a mere bookend in a women’s evolution from puberty through the end of her reproductive years.

The [M] Factor: Shredding the Silence on Menopause, a feature-length documentary film, centers on the lived experiences of women across the U.S. Cameras follow women into their doctors’ offices, at work, and in their homes to expose the challenges they face—including racial biases, gender-ignorant care, inequitable structures and systems, and barriers due to the lack of basic healthcare research. The women featured here open up about their experiences and share their stories of enduring debilitating symptoms while being ignored, ridiculed and/or shamed—and left untreated.

The [M] Factor gives women, their physicians, and their advocates a voice and a chance to be seen, heard, and respected.