What Fresh Hell is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You

Heather Corinnais a dedicated queer feminist activist, author, educator, artist, teacher, organizer and innovator. They are the founder and director of Scarleteen (www.scarleteen.com), the first inclusive and comprehensive sex, sexuality and relationships education online clearinghouse for young people, founded in 1998. Heather is also the author ofS.E.X: The All-You-Need-To-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties, now in its second edition,Wait, What? A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies and Growing Upwith Isabella Rotman, and was a contributing editor for the last edition ofOur Bodies, Ourselves. Their award-winning work in sex and health education has received acclaim from The Woodhull Foundation,Ms.Magazine,BUST,Bitch,On Our Backs,The New York Times, The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality and the ACLU, and has appeared in publications ranging fromTeen Vogue to Rewire News Group toThe Guardian.

Heather is navigating middle age with as much grace as they can muster (spoiler: not much), and currently lives and works in their hometown of Chicago.

Archie Bongiovanni is a cartoonist and illustrator living in Minneapolis who has been featured in The New Yorker, The Nib, Vice and Autostraddle. They're the co-creator of A Quick And Easy Guide To They/Them Pronouns and their graphic novel, Grease Bats is an ongoing monthly comic on Autostraddle.com and was released as a printed collection in 2019. Archie's newest graphic novel, Mimosa is slated for publication in 2022 along with History Comics: Stonewall, their collaboration with A. Andrews. While their sex toy review podcast is dead (RIP), they've worked in the sex industry as a trained sexual health educator for five years through Minneapolis' favorite sex shop, The Smitten Kitten.