Simon(e) van Saarloos - Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto Poetry Jacques Lacan

Jacques Lacan

retreat and unexpected encounters

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

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

A narrator and her dog are criss-crossing the Swiss Alps

Simon(e) van Saarloos - Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto Poetry Jacques LacanAgainst 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