Black Girls’ Guide to

Surviving Menopause

Welcome to

the dark side of the moon

This is a curated intergenerational exchange, a space for exploration, mentorship, intimacy, and vulnerability around life, identity and change. It’s the excavation of the things that you needed to know about your personhood through the years, but were never told. It’s the guide we wish we had access to no matter our age.

This is an inclusive space.

This guide, podcast, and brand was birthed by me, a cisgender, Black, heterosexual woman born and raised in the American South.

While I am motivated by my own lived experiences, I want to explore the multiple truths of aging and menopause in an inclusive way. Menopause doesn’t just happen to heterosexual, cisgender women.

There will be people who identify as femmes, gender non-conforming, or non-binary who want to access and be part of the stories shared.

Please know that you are welcome here and my goal is that you will also see your stories in the stories that are shared.

"Everybody wants to be a Black woman but they don't like, protect, believe, or take care of us."

Here's What I Know...

Menopause seems to be cloaked. It’s the conversation we all want to have. There is a lack of information around how Black women are experiencing aging.

OUR SOCIETY VALUES YOUTH

Patriarchy and misogyny hate Black women. We live in a youth-crazed, youth-centric, youth-focused society which marginalizes older women.

Aging is hard

Black women are not always seen and valued. You may not know or want to do what your mama did. You want to be at peace with being human.

We want out power back

You’re tired of not liking yourself. You want to feel happy, healed, and whole. You want language and new tools to take care of yourself.

We Gon' Heal Together

Healing is hard work. It’s not always fun or glamorous. Having kindred people who can navigate with you helps the journey.

This space is for Black women and femmes who want to live fully and in all ways.

We are creating spaces for Black women and femmes to have intentional, intergenerational conversations around life, intimacy, pleasure, and vulnerability.

We are creating a space of healing for Black women around bodies and their relationship to their bodies through the sharing of our stories

Meet Omisade

Omisade Burney-Scott is a Black southern 7th generation native North Carolinian feminist, mother and healer with decades of experience in nonprofit leadership, philanthrophy, and social justice. She is a founding tribe member of SpiritHouse and previously served as a board member of The Beautiful Project, Village of Wisdom, and Working Films.

Omisade is the creator of The Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause, a multimedia project seeking to curate and share the stories and realities of Black women and femmes over 50. She is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, the proud mother of two sons, and resides in Durham.

What Y'all Have To Say

Listening to Omisade Burney-Scott latest Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause Podcast podcast and resonating deeply with the politics and depth of silence, especially in the South.

Alexis M.

What if we thought differently about aging? What if Black women had spaces to explore aging, intimacy, body, change, pleasure, love, and spirituality? And they genuinely were supported in these efforts (especially by white women, as one way for us to keep dismantling white supremacy)? If these are things you think about or want to think and learn more about, be sure to check out my dear friend Omisade Burney-Scott's amazing and utterly necessary work and podcast Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause Podcast!

Lynne W.

It feels like I've been sisters with Omisade Burney-Scott for many lifetimes. Who else would understand my shock about the lack of conversations about growing older and menopause, and then do something about it? Omi would.

Lana G.

Upcoming Events

TEA AND TODDIES

March 19 from 6-8:30 pm

Legends | New York, NY

As we step into spring, what a better way to honor the vernal equinox than to be in the company of our sisters talking about life!

Partner with Us!

We host and partner with those committed to facilitating healing justice community conversations for Black, indigenous, People of Color focused on body positivity, intimacy, pleasure and change.

We create events with and for Black women and femmes over 50 for open conversations about “the change”, shapeshifting, menopause, love, life, white supremacy, patriarchy, moon phases and the crone identities.

Interested in partnering with us for your event?

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The Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause is a multimedia project seeking to curate and share the experiences, stories, and realities of Black women and femmes over 50 related to aging, intimacy, body, spirituality and change through the medium of audio storytelling.

We’ve hosted sold out events in Washington, DC and Durham, NC in addition to an international conference in Kenya!

With over 5K listens in 10+ countries, Black women and femmes are craving this information and this community. Your support allows us to

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