Simon(e) van Saarloos & Avgi Saketopoulou: ‘Against Ageism’ [Talk & book signing]

Join Simon(e) van Saarloos at Hive Mind Books to mark the US launch Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto. Van Saarloos will be in conversation with Avgi Saketopoulou, psychoanalyst and author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia.

More information and tickets here.

Tuesday 9 September
19:00

Hive Mind Books
219 Irving Ave
Brooklyn, NY 
11237
United States

About Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto

Against Ageism begins by stating what it is not: a socioeconomic argument against ageism that celebrates ‘elders’ as economically viable. Instead, Simon(e) van Saarloos presents a radical critique of conventional arguments against ageism, rejecting constructions of ‘age’ and ‘youth’ and assumptions about their inherent qualities.

The manifesto is based on personal experiences and offers an overview of how ageism overlaps with structures of white supremacy and patriarchy. Through the lens of crip and queer theory, as well as anti-normative and anti-colonial perspectives on time, this compelling text calls for the abolition of age-related laws, reframing commonly accepted ideas about age from Simon(e)’s challenging perspective.

Can’t make the event? Order Against Ageism here.