Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto
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- Category: Book
- Topic: Feminism, Queer
- Publisher: SPBH Editions
- Country: UK
- Language: English
- Release: 2025
- Cover: Softcover
- Binding: Perfect
- Size: 10.5 x 16.5 cm
- Pages: 176
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.
