Entertainment
5 March, 2026
Taboo subject
A FRANK and humorous conversation about menopause, with personal stories and lived experience, is coming to Cairns.
Author Chantal Munro will be at the City Library on Friday 6 March at 10.30am to talk about her book ‘Surviving the Change and the Secret Society of the Sweaty Sisters’.
“So, when menopause hit me, it absolutely rocked my world,” she said.
Ms Munro said the idea for the book was sparked during a hot flush at Rusty’s Markets.
“I was down at Rusty’s market one day and I had a massive hot flush and uttered the words menopause and these three women swooped upon me and hugged me, which didn’t help the hot flush,” she said.
“As I ran from them, I realised I had just joined a secret torture club that nobody spoke about and it was time to speak about it.”
She said menopause had long been treated as a taboo topic, but believes that is changing.
“I think generationally, it has been a taboo topic,” she said.
The talk at City Library is free, with books on sale.
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