Simon(e) van Saarloos - Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto Poetry people are reclaiming the means

people are reclaiming the means to care for one another in defiance of a system that devalues and exploits the labour of care

the tales featured in Love and Other Stories are at once bleakly ironic and profoundly humane in their depiction of their subjects

To feel someone's breast is your breast too

and ruminates on working class survival

by victim culture and the pop psychology phenomenon known as repressed memory syndrome

Simon(e) van Saarloos - Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto Poetry people are reclaiming the meansAgainst 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