We are very happy to announce the Berlin book premiere of Simon(e) van Saarloos book “Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto“. The wonderful publisher MACK is republishing the text that some of you might already cherish. Simon(e) van Saarloos will be in conversation about “Against Ageism” with incredible Claudia Rankine. We couldn’t be happier to host two such groundbreaking thinkers and writers.
The premiere will happen on Wednesday, the 7th of May at 8 pm. You can purchase your ticket for 8 € here on our onlineshop or in the shop. If you can’t afford a ticket right now send us an email to events@shesaid.de to reserve a solidarity ticket. The event will be in English!
And here is what the publisher MACK says:
„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.“
