Simon(e) van Saarloos: ‘Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto' [Book launch]

Simon(e) van Saarloos will be in Brighton for a reading and discussion of the ideas in Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto, a piercing new text which provocatively calls for the ablation of age-related works, reframing commonly held understandings about age from a defiant perspective. 

RSVP here 

Sunday 8 June 
15:00–17:30

The Queery 
46 George Street 
Brighton and Hove BN2 1RJ 

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.