It was 2023. I was pursuing a Master’s in Cultural Anthropology and Sustainable Citizenship at Utrecht University and had decided to write my thesis on women’s alignment of work with their menstrual cycle. My study was titled “Cyclically Embodied Work: Aligning with The Menstrual Cycle to Experience Work Consciously”.

A century after The New Yorker began as a humor magazine, women cartoonists are still redrawing its cultural edges. In this conversation, we speak with Liza about the feminist roots of cartooning, the power of humor to make invisible experiences legible, creative confidence after menopause, and why a drawn line, when paired with laughter, can shift culture faster than argument alone.

Most female leaders are navigating two parallel worlds: the 24-hour rhythm that shapes modern work (fast, consistent, solar), and the 28-day rhythm that shapes their bodies (seasonal, shifting, lunar). These two systems run on completely different clocks and that mismatch quietly influences communication, decision-making, emotional resilience, confidence, and leadership transitions.

In 1729, Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan noticed that even in darkness, the leaves of the Mimosa pudica still opened and closed on schedule. Without sunlight, this heliotrope plant kept time with an internal metronome. Humans also live by multiple internal clocks: the circadian rhythm - a 24-hour loop of wake, sleep, and alertness–and infradian rhythms like the 28-day hormonal cycle underpinning the menstrual cycle.