Menoplause

Jackie Fabulous treats aging not as a gentle transition, but as an administrative headache that happens to involve night sweats. Filmed at the 2021 Tribeca Festival in New York City and directed by Brian Volk-Weiss, the 57-minute set caught the former lawyer after years of club grinding and a breakthrough semifinal run on America’s Got Talent in 2019. Back in her childhood bedroom in the Bronx with her Jamaican mother during the pandemic, she approaches the stage with the brisk authority of someone whose patience ran out years ago. She runs through the bleak mathematics of dating at fifty, contrasts the passive men of Los Angeles with the direct aggression of New York, and rejects the cougar label on the grounds that pursuing younger men mostly means dealing with someone else’s unfinished development. When she pivots to hot flashes and weight gain, she demands credit for enduring the biology rather than looking for sympathy.