Menopunkapalooza, a two-night music festival and resource fair, was held at Portland's Crystal Ballroom on the last weekend of June 2026, drawing 750 attendees to rally around women's health during menopause and perimenopause — a subject the organisers argue remains taboo. Founded by musician and podcaster Alicia J Rose, the event brought together veterans of the Pacific north-west punk scene, medical professionals and campaigners to promote awareness of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and to raise funds and gather footage for an upcoming documentary called Menopunks.

The festival featured bands such as Ménage àh Twats and a reunion of riot grrrl pioneers Calamity Jane, performing together for the first time in 35 years, alongside a free resource fair and the reading of a 10-point "hormonal justice Bill of Rights". Organisers framed it as an extension of the 1990s riot grrrl feminist movement, with gen X musicians channelling their activist experience into midlife health advocacy. Several performers, including Rose and Calamity Jane's Gilly Ann Hanner, described debilitating symptoms — fatigue, joint pain, brain fog and anxiety — that doctors struggled to diagnose, underlining what they see as failures by government and the medical establishment to inform middle-aged women of their options.