Simon(e) van Saarloos - Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto Poetry and ruminates on working class

and ruminates on working class survival

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

music and transgression

and sheer narrative economy

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

Simon(e) van Saarloos - Against Ageism: A Queer Manifesto Poetry and ruminates on working classAgainst 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