What if our behaviours, desires, and access were no longer determined by age? Join Simon(e) van Saarloos to mark the launch of Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto, a radical critique of conventional arguments against ageism, rejecting constructs of “age” and “youth” and assumptions of their inherent qualities.
Saturday 5 April
18:00 – 20:00
Well Read
CC de Sant'Ana 92 94
1150-305 Lisboa, Portugal
RSV here
About Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto
Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto starts with what it is not: a socio-economic argument against ageism, celebrating the ‘elderly’ as economically viable. Instead, Simon(e) van Saarloos presents a radical critique of conventional arguments against ageism, rejecting constructs of ‘age’ and ‘youth’ and assumptions of their inherent qualities.
Drawing from personal experience, the manifesto offers a reckoning with how ageism overlaps with structures of white supremacy and patriarchy. Through the lens of crip and queer theory, as well as anti-carceral and anti-colonial perspectives on time, this piercing text provocatively calls for the abolition of age-related laws, reframing commonly held understandings about age from van Saarloos’s defiant perspective.
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