Join us to celebrate the launch of Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto in Geneva, where Simon(e) van Saarloos will be discussing their piercing manifesto and defining perspective on age at Fahrenheit Bookstore.
Friday 11 April
18:00
Maison Saint-Gervais Genève
Rue du Temple 5
1201 Genève
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.
![Simon(e) van Saarloos and Mira Rojzman: ‘Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto’ [Book launch & talk]](http://www.mackbooks.us/cdn/shop/articles/SS_Against_Ageism-event_visual_2cecf2dc-5a25-4cf5-98bc-be1e71a10278.jpg?v=1742558506&width=480)
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