Reposted by Cayce
OTTAWA: i'll be doing two launch events for The Politics of Lonely, both on Saturday, October 24:
✨ signing at @octopusbooks.ca
✨ launch/reading/convo with @alexisshotwell.bsky.social and Adrienne Row-Smith at The Grove (location changed for capacity reasons!)
sheerspite.ca/blog/2026/08...
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A lofty goal, but one that Midi and its competitors' track records suggest is possible. [[In a few short years, hormone therapy for perimenopausal women swung from inaccessible to inescapable.]] Every day, as the number of women taking hormones rises, they join an ongoing treatment group that is [[more experimental than perhaps they know]]. When it comes to doling out estrogen and progesterone, the goal for clinicians is balance. The industry employing them, however, is zeroed in on its growth chart going up, and up, and up.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k6p2bfabrk4x4hunlbuzzywe/bafkreiaphn3g4javhxqjqrojtkerndbvfpa2uqqoddbpzpwlxj6rthxbd4)
