Video Bee & She Listens

Video Bee is a one women video production company. In 2020, I collaborated with Vanessa Chapple and Sarah Bird Miller and together we are She Listens www.shelistens.community - We have created this Vimeo site especially for our first creation Giving Voice to Menopause. A 25 minute film featuring 8 diverse voices.

To engage with these women in an intimate and authentic way took months of preparation, as we ran several grouper/circles online to get an understanding of the many voices and varied experiences. This helped us find the diversity of voices we have in the final film. So we spent many hours with the participants, and in addition, over two days of interviews we created a safe and curated space to honour the vulnerability of sharing their experiences of menopause that had up until this point been pretty much silenced by the cultural taboo.

We are intent on changing the negative cultural narrative around women's (and menstruating bodies) experiences of menopause. Please encourage your family and friends who don't menstruate to also watch this film and learn about these unique and powerful experiences.