Simon(e) van Saarloos - Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto Poetry by victim culture and the

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

To feel someone's breast is your breast too

until his death in 1967

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

Set in the underground bar and club scene of 1970s Tokyo

Simon(e) van Saarloos - Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto Poetry by victim culture and theAgainst 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